The film is a beautiful reminder of the power of faith in things unseen.
Sports
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A Boy Grows in Brooklyn
It is the 1941 baseball season and Joe DiMaggio is not content Fans idolize him He enjoys a record-breaking hitting streak His wife gives birth to a son Yet DiMaggio is moody and saturnine besieged by guilt that he is not the hero his fans expect him to be…
Posted inArts & Culture, In All Things
An interview with Fay Vincent: The transcript
We have transcribed our interview with Former MLB Commissioner Fay Vincent on the morality of baseball. You can listen to the interview here or read it below.
Posted inArts & Culture, Podcasts
The Morality of Baseball: Fay Vincent on the Steroid Scandal
Former Major League Baseball Commissioner Fay Vincent speaks about the need for greater moral leadership in baseball in wake of the latest steroid scandal. In an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal on August 5, Mr. Vincent called for a lifetime ban for all players who use performance enhancing drugs.
Posted inFaith, Faith in Focus
Toeing the Line: Finding balance in long-distance running
Finding balance in long-distance running
Posted inFaith, Of Many Things
Of Many Things
The pope visits Yankee Stadium, and other sacred moments in secular spaces.
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Wait til Next Year!
The other day I asked a friend of mine, an old-timer and a longtime baseball fan, if he remembered the 1955 World Series. He thought a moment, and said: “Oh, yeah, wasn’t that a Dodger-Yankee series?” Yes, it was. But 1955 was special.
Posted inColumns, Faith
Freedom in Discipline: Vince Lombardi
While the Super Bowl is a distant memory (in the age of day-trading, instant e-mails and online newspapers, anything that took place more than a month ago is a distant memory), it is by no means too late to talk about a book and a man intimately connected to championship football games.