On April 27th, the year of our Lord 2021, the young Vladimir Guerrero Jr. launched three baseballs into orbit, for his first three-homerun game of his career, at the age of 22. Two of those shots were lifted off of Pitcher Max Scherzer. But that wasn’t the first time the great Scherzer has been taken […]
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Enjoying Baseball like a Christian
The game of baseball, as it was meant to be played, is an analogy of the Christian life in more ways than I will even mention in this post. So I would love to see some more ideas and discussion in the comments. My goal will be to speak about how we think about and […]
The Place of Sports in Postmillennialism: a Peace Time Battlefield
2 outs, bottom of the 9th, game 7 of the World Series. You could hear the St. Louis crowd, decked out in their Cardinal red, all the way in Kansas City. Busch stadium seemed as if it was about to burst at the seems as the whole year lead up to this moment. This was […]
Million Dollar Gospel, Pt. 2
In my previous post I talked about some gospel that I saw in the movie, Million Dollar Arm. There is one more gospel picture in the movie that I wanted to write on. I didn’t feel that it fit with my last post, thus I’ve given it it’s own post. In the movie, sports agent J.B. Bernstein […]
Million Dollar Gospel
The movie, Million Dollar Arm, is one of my top five favorite baseball movies. I recently re-watched the movie for the first time in a while. As I re-watched the film, I caught on to a few details that I had overlooked before. Primarily, I noticed two little quotes that were brilliant. I noticed […]