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PRESENTS

SUNDAY SPOTLIGHT

A SUNDAY AFTERNOON NEWSLETTER

“Sunday is the golden clasp that binds together the volume of the week.” —H. W. Longfellow

Peter Kreeft once wrote, “The self is like a baseball. Throw it back to the divine pitcher who pitched it to you in the first place, and the game of love goes on.” From the archive, three authors consider the sectarian nature of baseball, its divine portents, and its (possibly) English origins.

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JUNE 2016 ● BY GEORGE WEIGEL

TWO CATHOLICS AND THE CATHOLIC GAME ([link removed])

Catholic social doctrine has four foundational principles. Each of them may be found in baseball.

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SEPTEMBER 2010 ● BY DAVID BENTLEY HART

A PERFECT GAME ([link removed])
All baseball’s configurations and movements aspire to the timeless and the boundless.

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MARCH 2019 ● BY JOHN WILSON

HOW JANE AUSTEN PLAYED BASEBALL ([link removed])

How did it come about that the modest English origins of baseball were lost track of over time?

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