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United Church Observer  |  June 2014

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Listen to author Peter J. Schwartz on KSFR: Santa Fe Public Radio 

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Thanks to everyone who came out to support the book at tonight's NYU Speakers on the Square event!

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"I’m with Sexton, and I think he is very shrewd in encouraging non-believers to try to understand the religious sensibility by focusing on baseball’s moments of ‘wonder, awe, hope, passion, heroism and community’ and, especially, of ‘faith and doubt.’…"

—E.J. Dionne, Washington Post

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Author Tom Oliphant talks High Holy Days of baseball on CBS Sunday Morning. Video: http://cbsn.ws/XAV4m4

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Educator Pitches Spiritual Side of Baseball

As a boy in New York, John Sexton was crazy about the Brooklyn Dodgers. So on Oct. 4, 1955, he and his friend Bobby rushed home from school as fast as they could, making it just in time to listen to the last innings of game seven of the World Series.

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Today in 1920: Red Sox owner Harry Frazee sells the team, only to be remembered & cursed by New England fans as the person who sold Babe Ruth to Yankees.

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“Whoever wants to know the heart and mind of America had better learn baseball.” — Jacques Barzun

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This book is a home run.

Rachel Robinson of the @JRFoundation

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"What have you learnt from your students teaching this class?" "How much they yearn to see meaning in life and what we do." - John Sexton Watch video.

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“An elegant little meditation on life and the afterlife, well worth reading…”

—Kirkus Reviews

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Exited to be featured on Baseball America's Spring 2013 Baseball Book List among a slew of other great works! View the complete list.

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"Now, it needn’t be baseball, Sexton is clear to point out, that takes us out of ourselves. Organized religion can sometimes work. So might music or art. But Sexton’s hope, in chapters that follow the innings 1 through 9—with room set aside, as well, for a pregame show, a seventh-inning stretch, and a return to the clubhouse—is to reveal that this game can evoke the very 'essence of religion,' that 'inside the game the formative material of spirituality can be found.'"

Slate magazine (http://slate.me/105DBVe)

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Can’t get enough “Baseball as a Road to God?” audio book scheduled for release on Sept. 1!