Welcome to the podcast Think Biblically, Conversations on Faith and Culture.

I'm your host Scott Ray, Dean of Faculty and Professor of Christian Ethics,

the Talbot School of Theology here at Biola University.

We're here with a very special guest.

If you're a baseball fan, I suspect you'll recognize the name of

Darrell Strawberry, who is a Los Angeles native, but spent most of his baseball career with the New York Mets.

Also had a stint with the Los Angeles Dodgers and the New York Yankees.

And it was a perennial all-star during the peak of his career when he was

with the Mets but it had a fairly dramatic conversion to Christ and he catalogs this tells a story about this in his new book

called Turn Your Season Around. Darryl thank you so much for being with us it's

terrific to have you on our program with us and we loved

your book and want to commend it to our listeners and thanks for coming on with us and

talking with us about it. Well thank you so much Scott. It is a privilege to be with you guys, and it's always such a great honor to be able to talk about the goodness of our Lord Jesus Christ.

And I'm always excited about that. I'm excited about the work that God does in people lives.

Now Darrell, you've been out of baseball for over two decades.

What motivated you to write this book at this time after having been out of baseball for so long?

That's a good question because I really didn't want to write another book because I've been

down that road before I wrote my autobiography called Straw and it became a New York

Times bestseller, but I think I kind of just left people there at the beginning of my

transformation in my life was starting to change and God had

changed my life through that book but I didn't get into the details of how God

transform her life and I think my wife kept pushing me into writing another book

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