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John Sexton

Review roundup, March 18

March 18, 2013 · 0 comments

The AZ Snakepit, a Diamondbacks’-centric blog, posted this about John Sexton’s Baseball as a Road to God: Seeing Beyond the Game. Upshot: “Overall it’s a fine baseball book that is interesting most because it examines baseball in a manner more critical than most. The average baseball book is no better than a collection of trivia, [...]

Tagged as: Buzz Bissinger, Hank Greenberg, John Rosengren, John Sexton, Mickey Mantle

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Author appearance: John Sexton

March 9, 2013 · 0 comments

The president of NYU, where my daughter is a student, took a turn on The Colbert Report to discuss his new book, Baseball as a Road to God: Seeing Beyond the Game. To be honest, I’m more of a Daily Show kind of guy. If given a choice at a guest shot, I’d prefer that [...]

Tagged as: Baseball and religion, Colbert Report, John Sexton, Steven Colbert

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Back to bidness, post-Sandy

November 7, 2012 · 0 comments

Ok, hurication is over. Time to get back to some semblance of normalcy. I hope y’all are okay out there. We came out unscathed save for a couple of days without power; presently we have no cable/Internet service, but no complaints given what so many others are going through. Before the power went out we [...]

Tagged as: Baseball and religion, baseball statistics, John Sexton, NYU

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Where were courses like this when I was in college?

April 21, 2012 · 0 comments

My daughter attends NYU, which is where I eventually learned of this course taught by the school’s president, John Sexton, during a Parent’s Weekend last fall. “Baseball as a Road to God” is this subject of a front page story in today’s New York Times. Hoping to sit in on one of the sessions, I [...]

Tagged as: John Sexton, NYU

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