Tim Fortugno, Former MLB pitcher - Current Mets scout - Episode 43

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5 • 661 Ratings

🗓️ 29 September 2017

⏱️ 68 minutes

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Summary

Tim Fortugno is a former Major League Baseball pitcher and currently a professional scout for the New York Mets.

But the story of baseball is just a small part of the incredible life journey that Tim has had. Growing up as a child in a broken home, Tim witnessed physical and emotional abuse at the hands of his step-father. At 15, Tim was ready to end it all, but God intervened and brought Tim to foster family that turned his life around and changed him forever.

An unlikely trek to professional baseball started to take place and at the age where most baseball players are giving up their dream of making to the Majors, Tim Fortugno, age 30, gets the call to the show.

On this podcast, you’ll hear Tim’s incredible story of overcoming childhood abuse, the moment he wanted to end it all, how he came to faith in Jesus, why baseball was taken away from him and how getting married and having a child at a young age actually opened the door for him to pursue a professional baseball career.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Sports Spectrum podcast where faith and sports
0:09.8	and sports collide.
0:10.9	Here's your host, Jason Romano.
0:13.4	This is episode number 43 of the Sports Spectrum podcast.
0:17.3	Hi, everyone.
0:17.8	Thank you so much for being here on the show today.
0:21.7	We do appreciate you listening and tuning in, subscribing, downloading this podcast. Hi, everyone. Thank you so much for being here on the show today. We do appreciate you listening and tuning in, subscribing, downloading this podcast, wherever you may find them.
0:26.8	Of course, we're on Apple Podcasts on iTunes, Google Play, Stitcher, everywhere podcasts are found,
0:32.2	and you can always find every single episode of the podcast as well as a written sort of recap of the podcast with
0:39.2	quotes and our favorite topics and things like that over at sportspectrum.com. Today's guest is
0:46.5	Tim Fortugno. Now he is a former Major League Baseball pitcher and currently a scout with the New York
0:52.7	Mets and he's been in baseball for over 30 years now
0:55.3	long time but he's probably one of the more unlikely people that you would ever think could make
1:02.1	it to the major leagues Tim lived a rough life early on he grew up in a broken home he had a stepfather
1:09.6	that was very very abusive to him, both physically
1:12.3	and verbally. He came to a point where he tried to end his own life and then ended up getting
1:20.2	his girlfriend pregnant and marrying her at a very young age, 18 years old, and having a child.
1:26.7	He ended up pursuing baseball, having it taken away from
1:30.4	him, then pursuing it again. At 30 years old, he makes the major leagues improbably after years in the
1:38.8	minor leagues, and the stepping stones that it took to get to the major leagues are about as unlikely
1:43.6	as you'll ever hear.
1:46.2	And Tim is also a Christian, and he was adopted and taken into foster care and introduced to Christ
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