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Recommended Reading
From Season to Season: Sports as American Religion
Joseph L. Price
Mercer University Press, 2001
ISBN: 0865546940
  The Joy of Sports
Michael Novak
Madison Books, 1993
ISBN: 156833009X
 
Sacred Hoops: Spiritual Lessons of a Hardwood Warrior
Phil Jackson and Hugh Delehanty
Hyperion Books, 1996
ISBN: 078688200X
  Homo Ludens: A Study of the Play-Element in Culture
Johan Huizinga
Beacon Press, 1971
ISBN: 0807046817


Music in Program
Diamond Cuts: Play Ball
Yvonne Hood
"The Ball Game"
Hungry for Music
  Howlin' at the Moon
Sam Bush
"Take Me Out to the Ball Game"
Sugar Hill
 
Themes
Vangelis
"Chariots of Fire"
Polygram Records
  Appalachia Waltz
Yo-Yo Ma, Edgar Meyer, Mark O'Connor
"First Impressions"
Sony 68460
 
Baseball's Greatest Hits: Let's Play II
Nat King Cole
"The First Baseball Game"
Rhino Records
  Gone To Earth
David Sylvian
"Sunlight Seen Through Towering Trees"
Caroline
 
Cobb (Original Soundtrack)
Elliot Goldenthal
"Winter Walk"
Sony
  Sacred Heart
Peter Ostroushko
"Puckett's Farewell"
RHR CD 140