Turner and Donna Ward - Baseball, Faith and Cancer

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Sports Spectrum

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5 • 661 Ratings

🗓️ 25 November 2019

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

Episode 409

Turner Ward has been a part of Major League Baseball since making his debut as a player in 1990. He was selected in the 18th round of the 1986 MLB Draft by the Yankees but was traded to the Indians in March of 1989. He would make his debut on September 10, 1990 and play 12 seasons with Cleveland, Toronto, Milwaukee, Pittsburgh, Arizona and Philadelphia. He retired from playing following the 2001 season.

Ward has two World Series rings during his time with the Toronto Blue Jays, when they won back to back championships in 1992 and 1993.

Moving into coaching, Turner was the hitting coach for the Arizona Diamondbacks from 2013-2015, the Los Angeles Dodgers from 2016-2018 and with the Cincinnati Reds in 2019.

On this episode of the podcast, we talk to Turner and his wife Donna about their baseball life, coaching, playing, coming to faith and their participation in an IAmSecond.com video as they share on our show how their world was changed when Donna was diagnosed with cancer in 2012.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Sports Spectrum, the Sports and Faith podcast that brings Jesus back into the conversation.
0:17.0	Here's your host, Jason Romano.
0:20.0	This episode of Sports Spectrums podcast with Turner and
0:23.7	Donna Ward is brought to you by Compassion International, the most trusted child development
0:28.4	ministry in the world. Compassion does it right, and they offer an opportunity for you and I
0:33.6	to help release a child from poverty. It's that time of year when we start thinking about
0:39.3	how can we make a difference, how can we help,
0:41.5	what's a great idea for a gift to get somebody for Christmas?
0:46.4	Well, how about taking $38 a month
0:49.6	and helping someone who's in poverty,
0:52.4	a child in poverty, and it's tax deductible. It's an opportunity to
0:56.9	release that child from poverty through Compassion International. That $38 provides food, education,
1:03.8	medical care, vocational training, and the most important thing, it's all done in
1:08.8	discipling these children in the name of Jesus Christ.
1:12.3	Go to the website, Compassion.com slash Sports Spectrum. That's the place to check out a list of
1:17.6	children waiting to be released from poverty. Pray about it. Check out the website. Pick a child.
1:24.2	You're in. Sponsor a child today through Compassion. Compassion.com slash sports spectrum and pray about releasing a child from poverty today.
1:35.4	Today on Sports Spectrum, we feature an interview with Turner and Donna Ward.
1:41.3	Turner Ward, that name might sound familiar, long-time Major League Baseball player,
1:46.3	was drafted by the New York Yankees way back in the 1986 MLB amateur draft and made his
1:53.7	Major League Baseball debut four years later, September 10th, 1990, played 12 seasons in the major leagues with Cleveland, then Toronto, where he
2:04.0	won two World Series championships, back-to-back World Series championships with the Blue Jays,
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