It’s about you being real in your struggles, but it’s about to help somebody else.” It was a New York Times bestseller…Why do I need to write another book?” Then my wife said, “God called you to write this book, because this book-it’s not about you. I said, Well, “I’ve already written that book. And you know, Zondervan came and said, “Would you like to write a book about, you know, who you are, and everything?”. I mean, I could have went off into the sunset and just been living my life and in a quiet place, but God called me twelve years ago to start preaching and, and I started traveling like 250 times out of the year, and people started coming. And the willingness that you have to keep that conversation going and to use your past and to say, yeah, this is who I was, this is where I am now, I can show you the way if you want to do the same thing…you could very easily just, you know, retired, followed Jesus, lived your life.ĭarryl Strawberry: No question, Josh. For a lot of people who would know your name, within the context of baseball, they may not know or remember any of the other stuff that happened years ago. Josh Olds: Writing this book puts you in a in a very vulnerable position. So, if we understand that we always fall short, then you can’t worry about showing your wounds and your scars to somebody because they got some wounds or scars too… And we’re sitting here as people-we’re so afraid to show our scars and wounds, and we’re afraid what somebody else has to say…The Bible didn’t say some of us fall short, it says we always fall short. Why are we so afraid to show our scars? Jesus showed us his scars from the cross, and everything that he had to go through. So I could be able to help somebody else, to show them that they don’t have to go down that road. If I could have done it…yeah, but I done it the way I did it, so I need to learn something from that. That’s why my past is so important to me-not to be ashamed of it. And I think that’s what we need to always remember. Well, how can I help somebody else? I don’t have a story to tell them.
You want to say that we want to remember them and they can be reminders of God’s grace.ĭarryl Strawberry: Well, we could never understand grace if we forget our past, you know? And I think so many of us come to that place of our past and we want to forget about that. But you don’t want to forget those things. And you also have the scars-the mental, emotional scars of your previous life. And you talk about your own physical scars from your cancer surgeries. Josh Olds: One of the things you write about in Turn Your Season Around is the importance of scars.
The Conversation | Josh Olds and Darryl Strawberry Turn Your Season Around is a baseball-saturated book that takes themes from Darryl’s life and America’s pastime to give clear principles for starting anew.
In 1999, Darryl gave his life to Jesus and the two began piecing Darryl’s life back together. In the mid-1990s, he reached the depths of cocaine abuse, which led to an ignominious end to his baseball career.
But all the success belied a deep struggle in his personal life, which begin to push through into baseball. From 1983 to 1999, Darryl Strawberry wowed crowds with his flashy style, sound fundamentals, and electric play.
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