Shawn Purdy, Former Pro Baseball Player
Sports Spectrum Podcast
Sports Spectrum
4.9 • 685 Ratings
🗓️ 14 June 2019
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Episode 315
Shawn Purdy is a former pro baseball player. He played his college baseball at the University of Miami in Florida. After being selected three times in the MLB Amateur Draft in 1987, 1989 and 1990, he signed with the Angels after being selected in the 16th round of the 1991 draft.
After pitching for eight seasons in the minor leagues from 1991-1998, he retired at the age of 29.
Today, Purdy is the dad to three kids, all playing sports at a high level. His daughter, Whitney, plays softball at Southeastern University. His son, Brock, plays quarterback at Iowa State and was the Big 12 True-Freshman of the Year in 2018. His youngest son, Chubba, is a four-star high school QB recruit entering his senior year in 2019.
On this episode of the podcast, we talk to Shawn about his pro baseball journey, coming to faith in Christ in 1995, being a father to three kids who play elite sports, raising them up in the Lord, and the importance of keeping Christ at the center, even as they pursue their sports dreams.
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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. |
| 0:20.0 | This episode of the Sports Spectrum podcast with |
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| 1:16.4 | Today on the podcast, it's sort of a Father's Day edition of the show. We talked to Sean Purdy. |
| 1:23.4 | Sean is a former minor league baseball player, played collegiantly at the University of Miami with the Hurricanes, |
| 1:29.6 | and then drafted four times in 1987 to Pittsburgh, 1989 to Kansas City, 1990 to the Oakland A's, |
| 1:37.0 | and then 1991 to the Angels, where he would begin his professional baseball journey. |
| 1:43.8 | And he would go throughout the 90s basically, pitching professionally all the way up to AAA in 1997 and 1998 before having to retire at the age of 29, never making it to the big leagues. |
| 1:58.4 | Well, in many ways, Sean is moving on from baseball to softball and football because he's a dad |
| 2:06.6 | to three kids. |
| 2:08.7 | His daughter Whitney is a softball player at Southeastern University. |
| 2:13.3 | His son Brock is a quarterback at Iowa State, the Big 12 true freshman of the year last year. |
| 2:20.3 | Honorable mentioned all Big 12, 315 yards passing against Washington State in the Alabama |
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