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Sexton, John Edward, 1942-
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Baseball -- Religious aspects -- Christianity.
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Baseball as a road t...
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Baseball as a road to God : seeing beyond the game / John Sexton with Thomas Oliphant and Peter J. Schwartz ; [foreword by Doris Kearns Goodwin].
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Sexton, John Edward, 1942-
New York : Gotham Books, c2013.
Subjects
Baseball -- Religious aspects -- Christianity.
ISBN:
9781592407545 (hbk.)
1592407544 (hbk.)
Description:
xiv, 242 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Contents:
The Knothole gang -- First inning : sacred space and sacred time -- Second inning : faith -- Third inning : doubt -- Fourth inning : conversion -- Fifth inning : miracles -- Sixth inning : blessings and curses -- Seventh inning : saints and sinners -- Seventh-inning stretch -- Eighth inning : community -- Ninth inning : nostalgia (and the myth of the eternal return) -- The clubhouse.
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Applying to the secular activity of baseball a form of inquiry usually reserved for the study of religion, Sexton explores common ground between the game and what we all recognize as religion: sacred places and time, faith and doubt, blessings and curses, and more.
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