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In his book “Baseball as a Road to God: Seeing Beyond the Game,” John Sexton explores the sport as a community-building and sometimes transcendent experience. We will discuss themes of the book with an eye toward how baseball engages and expands our common humanity. We will explore the narratives and memories that create a common history. Major League Baseball, the urban version of the sport, is often a critical part of a city’s shared identity - even for residents who never attend a game (though some talk like they were there!). We will also take up the actual practices of the game - the disciplines required to play the sport - as well as the settings in which games are played. Baseball expresses a distinctive sense of time and space. We will think about how that sense relates to other places of distinct experience, such as other kinds of stadiums, concert halls, and churches. Along the way we invite you to remember and to discuss how you experience baseball.

 

Tom Frank is University Professor Emeritus of Wake Forest University where he chaired the History Department and taught courses in both the college and the divinity school. Before moving to Wake Forest, he taught for 25 years at Emory University. Frank holds a BA from Harvard University, a MDiv and PhD from Emory University, and a Masters in Heritage Conservation from Georgia State University.

Eddie DuPriest holds a BA in Religious Studies from Randolph Macon College, a MDiv from Candler School of Theology, Emory University, and a Masters in English from Georgia State University. DuPriest taught English for forty years at The Westminster Schools in Atlanta. He also attended the Yale
School of Drama in 1991 and enjoyed stage acting for the next twenty years. Since retiring from Westminster in 2013, DuPriest has pursued voiceover work and acting.

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