Over the last two years, Freddie Freeman, the five-time All-Star first baseman for the Atlanta Braves, has become a focus for folks eager to extrapolate the meanings of a mixture of national crises that include health, economics and the forging…
The Atlanta Braves and the window of hope
The voice of James Earl Jones — as Terrance Mann in The Field of Dreams — touches a nerve of spirit for millions of baseball fans. Since 1989 the words nearly have become sacred: “The one constant through all the…
Old-timey baseball players may have been the Kardashians of their day
As a theology professor at Baylor University, John A. Wood spent years focused on Christian ethics, business ethics, ethics of war and peace and ethics in film. In retirement, he has turned his ethical expertise to baseball.