Baseball Is America: Lia Petridis Maiello talks to Lawrence Baldassaro about Baseball and the Italian-American Experience

When I was in divinity school, Randall Balmer paraphrased Bart Giamatti’s prescient insight about baseball and the immigrant experience both being quests (even spiritual quests) for home. That always stuck with me. In this piece from 2011, Lia Petridis Maiello talks to Lawrence Baldassaro about his book on the concept.

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