Professional athletes often thank God after they or their team perform exceptionally well. More often than not there is an evangelical Christian tilt to their message and to any subsequent advice they may give about how to have a spiritually fulfilling life.

Shawn Green has taken a different approach and uses his memoir, The Way of Baseball: Finding Stillness at 95 MPH (Simon & Schuster, 206 pp., $24.00) to show how by meditating and following the principles of Zen Buddhism he became more grounded.

Think of it as a cross between Ted Williams' My Turn At Bat and Robert Pirsig's Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance.

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