The Faith of 50 Million
Subtitle: Baseball, Religion, and American Culture
Contributors: Christopher Hodge Evans (Editor); William R. Herzog (Editor)
Publisher: Westminster John Knox Press
Published: February 2002
Language: eng
Number of pages: 312
ISBN-13: 9780664223052
First sentence: Baseball was born in the Elysian Fields of Hoboken, New Jersey, during the 1840s and, from its earliest days, has conveyed a sense of the mythical magic of its origins to generations of Americans.