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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].
    by Sexton, John.
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    Gotham Books, 2013.
    Call #:796.357 S518b
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  • Baseball -- Religious aspects -- Christianity.
    • ISBN: 
    9781592407545 (hbk.)
    1592407544 (hbk.)
    Description: 
    xiv, 242 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
    Bibliography: 
    Includes filmography (p. 226), bibliographical references (p. [223]-226) and index.
    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.
    Summary: 
    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.
    Other authors: 
    Oliphant, Thomas.
    Schwartz, Peter J.
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