Rich Donnelly, Former MLB Coach (Part 1)
Sports Spectrum Podcast
Sports Spectrum
4.9 • 685 Ratings
🗓️ 22 October 2018
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Summary
Episode 173
Rich Donnelly coached and played professional baseball for 48 seasons. He was signed as a catcher by the Minnesota Twins in 1967 and played for the late, great baseball legend, Ted Williams.
He has spent 25 years as a MLB coach with the Rangers, Pirates, Marlins, Rockies, Brewers, Dodgers and Mariners.
In 2018, he spent time as a coach with the New York Mets minor league affiliate in Brooklyn.
Rich was a member of the 1997 Florida Marlins team that won the World Series. A book on the life of Rich titled "The Chicken Runs at Midnight"released on October 2, 2018 with Zondervan Publishers.
In part 1 of our two-part podcast, Rich Donnelly shares where his baseball journey began, how the story of his daughter Amy and her battle with cancer birthed the phrase "The Chicken Runs at Midnight," and why his faith was incredibly impacted by the circumstances surrounding his daughter's death.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Sports Spectrum, the Sports and Faith podcast that brings Jesus back into the conversation. |
| 0:17.5 | Here's your host, Jason Romano. |
| 0:19.7 | This episode of the Sports Spectrum podcast, |
| 0:22.6 | part one of our conversation with former Major League Baseball coach Rich Donnelly, is brought to you |
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| 1:12.2 | Today's guest on the podcast is Rich Donnelly, the former Major League Baseball Coach, |
| 1:16.8 | 48 seasons in professional baseball for Rich, signed as a catcher way back in the |
| 1:22.5 | 1967 with the Minnesota Twins, played four seasons with the twins and the senators, and actually |
| 1:30.2 | mentions in this podcast that Ted Williams, the famous, you know, all-time great Hall of Fame |
| 1:35.6 | baseball player, the Splendid Splinter from the Red Sox, was his manager, which is kind of cool. |
| 1:41.8 | Ted, of course, passed away many years ago, but Rich played baseball early in his |
| 1:47.4 | career and then quickly transitioned into coaching and was a minor league manager for many seasons |
| 1:53.3 | and then came to the majors. 25 years he spent as a major league baseball coach with the Rangers, |
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