Baseball as a Road to God Quotes

“Conversion is not for the faint of heart. It is a difficult process, requiring effort and perseverance.”
― John Sexton, Baseball as a Road to God: Seeing Beyond the Game

“Baseball is about going home, and how hard it is to get there and how driven is our need. It tells us how good home is.”
― John Sexton, Baseball as a Road to God: Seeing Beyond the Game

“Before coming to Atlanta in 1966, the Braves had been in Milwaukee, and before 1953, they had been one of the charter National League teams as the Boston Braves. The team had emerged as the Boston Red Stockings in the 1870s and were next the Red Caps, the Beaneaters, the Doves, and then the Rustlers. They became the Braves in 1912 because one of their owners, ex–New York cop James Gaffney, was a fixture of the Tammany Hall political machine and Tammany’s famous symbol had long been an American Indian.”
― John Sexton, Baseball as a Road to God: Seeing Beyond the Game