[BOB] FAW: Now the former law school dean and distinguished legal scholar has written a most unusual book: \u201cBaseball as a Road to God.\u201d\u009d That\u2019s right, baseball.<\/p>\n
[John] SEXTON: The similarities between baseball and religion abound. The ballpark as cathedral; saints and sinners; the curses and blessings. But then what I\u2019m arguing is beyond that surface level, there\u2019s a fundamental similarity between baseball and religion which goes to the capacity of baseball to cause human beings, in a context they don\u2019t think of as religious, to break the plane of ordinary existence into the plane of extraordinary existence.<\/p>\n
FAW: John Sexton says that what happens here is more than just a game\u201d\u201dthat it reveals a dimension beyond the eyes and mind letting us, in his words, \u201csee through to another, sacred space\u201d\u009d\u201d\u201dwhat John Sexton calls \u201cthe ineffable.\u201d\u009d<\/p>\n