Sermons On The Mound

For Ben Chamberlin in Boston and Raymond McCormick in Los Angeles, they maintain a sentiment of baseball as religion. They have renamed Dodger Stadium "Church." And each new season they pilgrimage to that liminal (And some say Holy) space where they re-connect with the divine, mere humble congregants at Baseball's service. They are people of faith, putting their trust both in the Word of God, and Vin Scully. They both believe in the Miracle of the Resurrection and Game 1 of the '88 World Series. They have both been unfaithful adulterers, baseball bigamists, Raymond with the Angels of Anaheim and Ben with the Red Sox of Boston. And both have the caps to prove it. They've journeyed through several years of religious education, amongst fundamentalists in the High Desert and liberals at Harvard. Their faiths have undergone as much change as their favorite team's roster. So they write about it. They write about Baseball. And they write about God.