1. He says that from childhood his “doubts and uncertainties [about God] went to and fro and [his] disbeliefs grew.”

2. He writes virtually nothing about the role of faith, except to remark that players “have always professed all manner of evolving beliefs, Agnosticisms, skepticisms, and disbeliefs.” What he lacks in analysis he tries to make up for in description, and though he provides a …