Dave Matheson
Episode 228
12 JUNE 2023
He spent almost four years as the Public Relations Manager for Major League Baseball’s Detroit Tigers. That followed stints as the University of Houston’s Assistant Sports Information Director, the University of South Alabama’s Assistant Sports Information Director, and the University of Georgia’s Sports Information Assistant. He currently serves as an Official Scorer with Major League Baseball’s San Diego Padres, a role he also held with the Washington Nationals and Houston Astros. He has umpired Little League Baseball, has coached youth soccer and baseball, and, back in his days as a student-athlete, played baseball and wrestled. On the faith side, he is the Director of Development for Catholic Answers, and serves as the backup host for their live radio show.
Notable guest quotes:
“My father was very active in the church. In fact, he was a Deacon… my mom was involved with the women’s ministry. And I will credit that part of my upbringing for learning to love the Lord, learning to know more about Him.”
“In 1996 I married my cradle Catholic, well, fiancée, we got married in late 1996 and it changed my life in more ways than one.”
“I quickly realized that if I was going to make this decision, I needed to do my own research. I needed more than what I was going to learn in this RCIA class.”
“It’s kind of who I am. I’m a reader. I like to do research, things like that. So, my mother-in-law had given me a book called Surprised By Truth, and it is a compilation of conversion stories.”
“I would ask my wife questions about the Catholic faith. Often she didn’t know and would say, ‘Go look it up,’ so I’d go to the Internet and one way or another I’d end up at catholic.com, which is the website for Catholic Answers.”
“I was in Major League clubhouses from 1996 to 2000 and one of the things that did strike me is the number of baseball players who are Christians.”
“There’s so many things you can do to really draw closer to the Lord and the Catholic faith gives us all of this.”
“One of the watershed moments for me is I reached a point in my faith where I felt like I wanted to do more. I looked into the diaconate, for example, the permanent diaconate.”
“There were a small handful of us guys, three or four of us, and we brought That Man Is You… to our parish. I became the Grand Knight of our Knights Council. My wife and I taught CCD to third graders for a couple of years. We went to the March For Life there in (Washington) DC.”
Related links:
Dave’s bio on the Catholic Answers website
Book being given away as mentioned on this episode
