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The president of New York University offers a love letter to America’s most beloved sport and a tribute to its underlying spirituality. For more than a decade, John Sexton has taught a wildly popular New York University course about two seemingly very different things: religion and baseball. Yet Sexton argues that one is actually a pathway to the other. Baseball as a Road to God is about touching that something that lies beyond logical understanding. Sexton illuminates the surprisingly large number of mutual concepts shared between baseball and religion: faith, doubt, conversion, miracles, and even sacredness among many others. Structured like a game and filled with riveting accounts of baseball’s most historic moments, Baseball as Road to God will enthrall baseball fans whatever their religious beliefs may be. In thought-provoking, beautifully rendered prose, Sexton elegantly demonstrates that baseball is more than a game, or even a national pastime: It can be a road to enlightenment.
This is an excellent book for anyone who loves baseball or for who has a spiritual bent outlook on life.I found it to be a charming philosophical view into baseball. Forcing me to look at the game I have loved all of my life from a completely different perspective.Sexton approaches the issue though from a ecumenical "spiritual" point of view, rather than a "religious" on invoking only human spirituality in all of its forms in his discussion on "Baseball as A Road to God".This book is highly theological at times and at other times reads as a fascinating collection of baseball myths. In the form of the Greek myth, which Sexton explains as a "truth that is experienced, an awareness that lies beyond words".If you've no interest in either of those subjects, than don't read this book as it will most likely bore you to tears.If, however, you are one who valiantly defends baseball against the hordes of uninformed who complain at the slowness of the sport and how boring it is, all the while trying to explain the intricacies of the game being played behind the scene of the game, then this book is right up your alley.All in all, an excellent little book that has given me a "new pair of glasses" in response to my favorite sport and made my enjoyment of the game that much more sublime.One of the best books on baseball or spirituality that I have read in a long time. Like Stuart Scott meets C.S. Lewis.