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Rounding the bases : baseball and religion in America
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- Creator
- Joseph L. Price
- Format
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- Language
- English
- Publication
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- First edition
- Macon, Ga. : Mercer University Press, 2006
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- Physical Details
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- xi, 260 pages ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 0865549990, 9780865549999
- OCLC
- ocm68192359
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Introduction: on deck -- Rounding the bases: baseball intersecting religion -- Exercising faith: baseball for the House of David -- The pitcher's mound as Cosmic Mountain: baseball and religious myths -- Conjuring curses and supplicating spirits: baseball's culture of superstitions -- Safe at home: baseball as American civil religion -- Fusing the spirits: the sacramental power of baseball -- Now and there, here and then: Kinsella's millenarian world of baseball -- Here I cheer: conversion narratives of baseball fans