Ebook: Baseball as a Road to God: Seeing Beyond the Game

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.;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.