Like the Promise of Easter, New Baseball Season Offers Chance to Begin Again

Like the promise of Easter, new baseball season offers chance to begin again

As the late player-manager Leo Durocher once said, "Baseball is like church. Many attend, few understand."

The opening days of baseball season echo the promise of Easter: A return, a resetting, a chance to forgive what came before - The Dialog

Baseball season arrives each year just as Catholics experience the promise of the Easter season. Now, in the early weeks of the long Major League Baseball schedule, that promise is already being tested. Fans are locked in — checking box scores, riding early streaks and already bemoaning inevitable slumps. Hope is no longer theoretical. It’s in motion. In that sense, the rhythms of baseball and the rhythms of faith don’t seem so different. As the…