Baseball as a Road to God

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.