Professor, Author, and Baseball Fan Christian Sheppard

Join us on October 21^st for lunch at the Union League Club when professor, author, and avowed baseball fan Christian Sheppard discusses how baseball may assist those aspiring to live a life of virtue.

Christian Sheppard is the author of The Ancient Wisdom of Baseball, which Theo Epstein describes as “a love letter to baseball that explains its connections to our inner lives and to classical lore in a way that makes one pine for Opening Day.” Sheppard is a professor of liberal arts at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and former teacher of the “Great Books” at the University of Chicago. He is co-editor of Mystics: Presence and Aporia (University of Chicago Press). He has published essays on sports, art, literature, and religion in The New York Times, The Chicago Tribune, The Journal of Religion, and elsewhere. He has lectured at the Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago Shakespeare Theatre, the Nantucket Book Festival, and the Baseball Hall of Fame. A lifelong baseball fan, he lives within walking distance of Wrigley Field.

Register now.  This event is sure to be a home run regardless of whether you root for the Cubbies or the South Siders.

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