Rich Donnelly, Former MLB Coach (Part 2)
Sports Spectrum Podcast
Sports Spectrum
4.9 • 685 Ratings
🗓️ 22 October 2018
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
Episode 174
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 2 of our two-part podcast, Rich Donnelly shares takes the story of "The Chicken Runs at Midnight" and shares why his daughter Amy's death helped him as more difficult times entered into his life. Overcoming cancer, the loss of another son and watching two daughters get caught in a mass shooting. Through it all, Rich has remained positive and faithful to God's promises.
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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. |
| 0:19.6 | This episode of the Sports Spectrum podcast, part two of our conversation with Rich Donnelly, former Major League Baseball coach, is brought to you by Compassion International. |
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| 1:02.1 | Today's guest on the podcast is Rich Donnelly. |
| 1:05.3 | This is part two of our conversation with Rich, |
| 1:07.6 | the former Major League Baseball coach, |
| 1:09.4 | 48 seasons in professional baseball as a player |
| 1:12.5 | and coach, 25 years in the majors. Rich was a part of the 1997 Marlins team that won the |
| 1:19.8 | World Series and that World Series championship, that Game 7 victory, that last hit by Craig Craig counsel the walkoff is what spurned on the story of |
| 1:33.0 | the chicken runs at midnight which is the new book out by Tom Fran the ESPN reporter |
| 1:39.4 | with a forward by Tim Kirkshan released through Zondervin. But this story is Rich Donnelly's story, |
| 1:45.9 | this book, The Chicken Runs at Midnight. |
| 1:47.8 | In part one, go back and listen to Part One, |
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