for theologian turned lawyer john sexton, god is the sense that there is meaning in our lives, meaninggoes beyond us -- transcendence, beauty and truth. oddly enough, he uses those same words to describsomething quitdifferent baseball. how exactly are the two connected? that's what correspondent bob faw wanted to know. >> new york university president john sexton oversees more than 40,000 students and a $2.5 billion budget. he's expanding the university at home and abroad while contending with some faculty members who oppose his high-powered management style. >> we're going to do just a little bit of a wrap up. >> and yet, like few university presidents, sexton also finds time to teach four classes. he is famous for greeting his students and anyone else, for that matter, with a hearty hug, and demanding nothing less than their absolute best. >> eugene o'neill famously said he who stops at mere success and does not press on to glorious failure is a spiritual middle classer. i don't want you stopping at the easy. none of you. >> now the former law school dean and distinguished legal scho

joining us now is john sexton, president of nyu and the author of baseball as a road to god.yond the game. welcome. >> it is good to see you again. >> i wish i were there to say hi in person. as you know, because you were my adviser, i did my dissertation comparing the devotional practices between the faithful and sports fans. so you don't have to make this connection for me. i already got it. tell everyone else, how is baseball the road to god? >> there are many dimensions to it. you can play it through several levels. the most obvious being things like the stadium as a cathedral. you move quickly it's past that, i think, in the case of baseball. your dissertation was on sports in general. but baseball has a timeless quality about it that almost justifies the word unique. that's a word we should use carefully. if you're a true baseball fan, if you move past the moment where you think, oh, this is boring and slow, you begin to notice that you're noticing. and that account is different in the first inning with the runner on base than if there is no runner on base. or it is dif

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