There’s nothing special about a boozy crowd doing the “wave” at the ballpark, but what it they’re parting the Red Sea? 10,000 people have been attending the “Faith Friday Nights” minor league baseball games in Kentucky, a promotional event dreamed up by the Nashville Sounds marketing department. The evenings feature a Moses bobblehead giveaway, with Samson, Noah and other Biblical heroes on deck.
Author Michael Novak says “You need chants and songs, the rhythm of bodies in unison, the indescribable feelings of many who together `will one thing’ as if they were each members of a single body. All these things you have in sports … sports are a form of religion.”
The whole thing would a great way for flexi-observant Jews to celebrate Shabbos if it wasn’t deep in fundamentalist Bible Belt country and the pre-game entertainment wasn’t “personal testimonies” about Jesus from the players. And the hot dogs were Hebrew National, of course.