Marty Solomon and Brent Billings are joined by special guest Ethan Bryan, author of A Year of Playing Catch, along with many other books. He has found himself in the National Baseball Hall of Fame and the White House, and he is self-proclaimed “one of the best benchwarmers [from his] high school junior varsity baseball team.”

A Year of Playing Catch by Ethan D. Bryan

Baltimore Orioles at Kansas City Royals, May 28, 1979 — Baseball Reference

“Remembrance of Royals’ Krispy Kreme promotion in 2000s strikes a chord with KC fans” by Pete Grathoff — The Kansas City Star

The Center for Healing and Justice Through Sport

Field of Dreams (1989 film) — Letterboxd

Field of Dreams (Dubuque County, Iowa) — Wikipedia

Mary Moore (infielder) — Wikipedia

A League of Their Own (1992 film) — Letterboxd

Perry Barber — Grassroots Baseball

Perry Barber — J! Archive

The Art of Asking Better Questions by J. R. Briggs

Community Partnership of the Ozarks

The Life-Saving Adventure of Gracelyn Gordon and Her Dog by Ethan D. Bryan

Braum’s Ice Cream & Dairy Store

Ten (Mostly) Recent Novels, Including Two Wonderful Reads You Haven’t Heard Of by Byron Borger — Hearts & Minds

Review of The Life-Saving Adventure of Gracelyn Gordon and Her Dog — Brent Billings, Goodreads

America at the Seams by Nathan Rueckert with Ethan D. Bryan

For the Life of the World 63: Passionate God, Crucified God, Joyful God — Yale Center for Faith and Culture, April 10, 2021, with Jürgen Moltmann & Miroslav Volf

Grit by Angela Duckworth

Quiet by Susan Cain

The Catch-Playing Wedding Story

Ethan Bryan on Facebook

Catch 365 with the Nashville Sounds

Ethan Bryan’s website

Special Guest: Ethan Bryan.

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