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Baseball As A Road To God: Seeing Beyond The Game (2013)

by John Sexton(Favorite Author)

3.67 of 5 Votes: 2

ISBN

1592407544 (ISBN13: 9781592407545)

languge

English

genre

History & Biography

publisher

Gotham

review 1: Insightful & very well written. Just one of the many excerpts I liked! BASEBALL! "It breaks your heart. It is designed to break your heart. The game begins in the spring, when everything else begins again, and it blossoms in the summer, filling the afternoons and evenings, and then as soon as the chill rains come, it stops and leaves you to face the fall alone. It keeps time fat and slow and lazy. In 1839, the rule became fixed that one runs [the bases] counterclockwise. Time does not matter in baseball." (Bart Giamatti)
review 2: This book was the first book I read cover to cover since college. I was drawn to this book, because I love the sport of baseball, and I use to be religious. The title stuck out to be and I was intrigued to see how the two topics conne... morected. The same hope Sexton had for his Dodgers to beat the Yankees in the World Series is the same hope I have for my Mets every season. The best thing about the sport of baseball is that you can go to a game you can be a witness to something special and this book gives great insight to all the elements that can surround that special moment in the game, "the ineffable" moments that can't be explained unless you were there. I'm not a very big reader but I ready it less then a week... less

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