DARRYL STRAWBERRY | From Player to Preacher (Ep. 955)
Undaunted.Life: A Man's Podcast by Kyle ThompsonShow Notes
In this episode, we welcome Darryl Strawberry to the show. He is a former Major League Baseball superstar. He was drafted #1 overall by the NY Mets in the 1980 MLB Draft and is a four-time World Series Champion. He also is an eight-time All-Star, 1983 Rookie of the Year, and a two-time Silver Slugger. His number 18 jersey was retired by the New York Mets, and he is in the NY Mets Hall of Fame. He is now a traveling evangelist and author. In this interview, we discuss how he went from a poor kid in South Central Los Angeles to the MLB #1 overall draft pick, how baseball has moved from a “feel” game to a metrics game, his Mt. Rushmore of MLB position players and pitchers, the pitcher he feared the most when he was in the Majors, his perspective of Bill Buckner’s error in the 1986 World Series, how he’s actually thankful for all of the off-the-field issues and sicknesses that he had, how he became a traveling evangelist, his latest book “Another Life - Discovering the Healing Power of Purpose on My Long Journey from Player to Preacher”, and much more. Let’s get into it…
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