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Received a great book the other day: Baseball/Literature/Culture Essays, edited by Kates and Tormey (McFarland).
One of the many excellent contributions comes from Andrew Hazucha, a professor at Ottawa University (Kansas), who writes “Proselytizing Pastime: Appropriating Jesus at Coor Field.”
This isn’t new. We’ve heard about the encroachment of Baseball Chapel and its affect on non-Christian personnel for some time. But there was one line attributed the Colorado Rockies leadership that struck me as a bit queer. Team field manager Clint Hurdle is quoted as saying “We look for men of character, men of skills. That those have a common fabric with Christianity is not a coincidence.”
I have two comments:
- Is he saying that non-Christians do not have character?
- He might want to take a look at one of the mainstays of his pitching rotation last season. Jason Marquis won 15 games for the Rockies to help them win the National League Wild Card. Does Hurdle think Marquis — whose teams have never failed to make a post-season appearance since his debut in 2000 — is missing that attribute? Just curious (and perhaps a bit too sensitive).
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