United Church Observer  |  June 2014

Listen to author Peter J. Schwartz on KSFR: Santa Fe Public Radio 

Thanks to everyone who came out to support the book at tonight's NYU Speakers on the Square event!

—E.J. Dionne, Washington Post

Author Tom Oliphant talks High Holy Days of baseball on CBS Sunday Morning. Video: http://cbsn.ws/XAV4m4

As a boy in New York, John Sexton was crazy about the Brooklyn Dodgers. So on Oct. 4, 1955, he and his friend Bobby rushed home from school as fast as they could, making it just in time to listen to the last innings of game seven of the World Series.

Today in 1920: Red Sox owner Harry Frazee sells the team, only to be remembered & cursed by New England fans as the person who sold Babe Ruth to Yankees.

“Whoever wants to know the heart and mind of America had better learn baseball.” — Jacques Barzun

Rachel Robinson of the @JRFoundation

"What have you learnt from your students teaching this class?" "How much they yearn to see meaning in life and what we do." - John Sexton Watch video.

—Kirkus Reviews

Exited to be featured on Baseball America's Spring 2013 Baseball Book List among a slew of other great works! View the complete list.

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