Sermon on the Mound: Finding God at the Heart of the Game

Michael O'Connor. Bethany House Publishers, $15.99 (192pp) ISBN 978-0-7642-2395-2

Fans of more sedate sports, such as America's favorite pastime, will enjoy Michael O'Connor's Sermon on the Mound: Finding God at the Heart of the Game. O'Connor, a diehard baseball fan who converted to Christianity when the Boston Red Sox failed to win game six of the 1986 World Series (long story), doesn't write like the rookie author that he is. He is, as they say in baseball, a natural. ( Mar.)

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