Sports Orthodoxy: Looking for/Documenting Orthodox Athletes

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The link below will take you to a bookseller's page for a book that is a memoir about an autistic young man competing in little league baseball. He went on to play hardball at the high school level and was also in the starting pitching rotation. He is a devout Orthodox Christian.

Beast by Dave N. Donch

Sounds interesting and thanks for the suggestion

 

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Came across this today:

Olympian gives medal to Athonite monastery

Byzantine, Texas: Olympian gives medal to Athonite monastery

The medal will adorn an icon of the Mother of God!

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Wow!

That is beautiful. And what a way to show connection with the world of Sports and Ancient Faith on such a high level Digging what that Olympian did