Ted Barrett - Major League Baseball Umpire
Sports Spectrum Podcast
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4.9 • 685 Ratings
🗓️ 18 January 2021
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
Ted Barrett has been a Major League Baseball umpire since 1994. He became a full-time MLB umpire in 1999 and is the only umpire to ever be behind the plate for TWO perfect games. (David Cone in 1999 and Matt Cain in 2012)
He has umpired in four World Series including the Red Sox Championship in 2007 and 2018, the Cardinals title in 2011 and the Giants beating the Royals to win it all in 2014.
He is the co-founder of CALLING FOR CHRIST, a ministry serving professional baseball umpires and earned his Doctorate in theology from Trinity in 2013.
On this episode of the podcast, Ted takes us into life as an MLB umpire during the 2020 shortened pandemic season. He also shares what it was like to umpire for 18 innings behind the plate in Game 3 of the 2018 World Series, umpiring the 2018 All-Star Game, the dissertation he wrote in 2013 on faith and umpiring and the rhythms he abides by as a follower of Christ.
You can learn more about Ted’s ministry by going to callingforchrist.com.
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| 0:00.0 | This is Sports Spectrum, the Sports and Faith podcast where we bring Jesus into the conversation. |
| 0:14.4 | Here's your host, Jason Romano. |
| 0:16.5 | What's up, guys? Welcome to the show. I am Jason. This is Sports Spectrum. We are so glad that you tuned into our show today. |
| 0:23.8 | We got a great conversation coming up with Major League Baseball umpire Ted Barrett. He's going to tell you about 2020, the pandemic, what it was like to be an umpire, umpiring a game in an empty stadium. |
| 0:36.8 | And he's got some really cool stories about the longest World Series game that he's ever umpired. |
| 0:45.2 | Happens to be the longest World Series game of all time. |
| 0:49.2 | So Ted Barrett, the Major League Baseball umpire is coming up. |
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