Author : Jonathan a Fink
Publisher :
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 30,71 MB
Release : 2021-02
Category :
ISBN : 9780578830117
In this book, I chronicle the origins, history and religiosity of baseball.
Author : Jonathan a Fink
Publisher :
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 16,71 MB
Release : 2019-10-19
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9780578598338
In Volume 2: The Road to the Show, I take my readers for another ride as I continue on my spiritual path. This book also chronicles the path of Jon Perrin, my colleague at Satya Investment Management, the asset management firm I founded in 2015. In this book, I follow Perrin on his road to the show through baseball's minor league system.
Author : Jonathan a Fink
Publisher :
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 33,19 MB
Release : 2018-08-22
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780692169162
The Baseball Gods are Real is a true story about baseball and spirituality.
Author : John Sexton
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 35,50 MB
Release : 2013-03-07
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 1101609737
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.
Author : Dan Blewett
Publisher : Dan Blewett
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 40,7 MB
Release : 2019-04-08
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1727813936
Dear Baseball Gods, Why didn't you look out for him? Didn't he deserve better? He hustled, competed, and played the game the right way. What happened wasn't fair. A Second Comeback Dan sat by a tree, staring at the ground trying to decide what he would do next. The doctor had just explained that everything he worked for was now ruined. A second Tommy John surgery? Does anyone come back from that? Is my career over? Is this it? A Winding Road to the Top As a walk-on in college, Dan had to earn everything. He pitched on three hours sleep, lived in the clubhouse, played for a team that collapsed mid-season, and endured more arm pain than any kid should. A Way to Move On When finally forced to hang up his cleats, Dan looked in the mirror and didn't recognize the man peering back. If no longer a ballplayer...what would he do? What had been the point of it all? Who was he? The Deeper Side of Life as an Athlete In this philosophical memoir, written as a series of letters, you'll learn that the pinstripes don't wash off so easily.
Author : Ronald DiFabbio
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 122 pages
File Size : 43,60 MB
Release : 2006-07
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 0595397328
Have you ever watched a baseball game and wondered why on some days every good call or lucky bounce goes in favor of the team you're rooting for, while on the other days it seems like there is a grand conspiracy perpetuated by some higher power to keep them from winning? Or maybe you've wondered why some players always seem to get the big hit in the clutch, while others wilt when the spotlight shines on them? Or on a more personal level, maybe you're someone who can't figure why your life is not what you had always hoped it would be and you feel powerless to do anything about it? The questions of baseball and life are as mysterious as the compulsions that drive us to answer them, but there are a group of beings that make their home on the ball fields of our youth and in the landscape of our dreams who can answer all our questions and teach us to live to a better life. They are the Baseball Gods and this is the story of how I met them, how they have changed my life.
Author : E. Ethelbert Miller
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 74 pages
File Size : 37,51 MB
Release : 2018-02-13
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 1947951017
Here are poems that celebrate and interpret the game by one of America's finest poets. They are for everyone who has experienced the magic released when three holy things come together: bat, ball and glove. "Ethelbert Miller is one of the most significant and influential poets of our time." --Gwendolyn Brooks If God Invented Baseball is a complete game of baseball poems, a full nine innings pitched by a “master twirler,” whose complete arsenal includes fastballs, curves and change-ups, and the occasional knuckler, to keep readers swinging for the fences, his full artistry on display. Ethelbert Miller's work captures the enjoyment of the game from childhood to old age. Baseball fans will place this book next to their scorecards, peanuts and beer. Poetry readers will equally be delighted. If God Invented Baseball is a book for the ballpark and the home. “Ethelbert's replay of baseball joys and sorrows is a must read. He brings us THE GAME with skill and grace. It is an inside the park home run” -- Clifford Alexander
Author : Dan Blewett
Publisher : Dan Blewett
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 47,8 MB
Release : 2022-02-15
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN :
What Does it Take to Have a Great Baseball Career? You daydream about one day seeing your face on a baseball card. You live for pressure and the green grass beneath your cleats. But as your career progresses, the game gets harder. You slump and struggle. You get injured and overlooked. Your confidence plummets. Can you keep improving? Are your big dreams still within reach? A Handbook for the Dedicated Player Clean Your Cleats is filled with stories and advice learned the hard way, over a long career on the diamond. Develop better routines and improve your consistency. Handle the ups and downs with confidence and resolve. Strengthen relationships with teammates, parents and coaches. Learn mindset strategies to become the best version of you. Dan Blewett, in this practical guide, helps players understand all the little things in baseball that make a huge difference over a long career. Why clean your cleats? Because every detail matters.
Author : Mark Littell
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 20,44 MB
Release : 2016-11-11
Category :
ISBN : 9780989867269
Major League Baseball has had its share of characters. Mark Littell is a one-of-a-kind, mold-breaking country boy from the Bootheel of Missouri. In this book, Mark takes you through his wild and wooly career as a baseball player, from his very first at-bat when he was six years old, through his career in the Major Leagues. This collection of unbelievable tales will have you on the floor laughing, as Mark's Southern twang and quick wit show you a side of baseball you've never seen before. Read on to discover what the most common baseball term is, how a country boy from Missouri made it from the farm to the major league pitching mound, and why the city of Cleveland won't let Mark back. "Having Country as a teammate was a pleasure. I never realized he had the writing skills or humor to write such an insightful book. A must-read story." - Dave Nelson Former MLB player, and current broadcaster for the Milwaukee Brewers "A candid and humorous book about big league baseball. Mark brings to life the ups and downs of professional baseball. This book definitely finds the strike zone." - Denny Matthews Sportscaster and Kansas City Royals Hall of Fame Member-2007 recipient of Ford C. Frick award "This book is the real deal. Mark did a great job of sharing his own stories playing the greatest game in the world. Every baseball fan should read this and laugh their ass off like I did." - Jim Wohlford Former MLB player "Mark is one-of-a-kind, and his uproarious personality comes out in the pages of this book. On the Eighth Day... is a phenomenal collection of stories that will have everyone, baseball fan or not, rolling on the floor with laughter." R. Craig Coppola Author of The Fantastic Life
Author : Bryan Steverson
Publisher : WestBow Press
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 42,51 MB
Release : 2014-10-14
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1490852972
Scripture becomes evident in baseball, if we only look. As a special gift from God, many examples are herein detailed. If we can find Gods Word in baseball, we can find it elsewhere also.
