Had priesthood and a lifetime dedicated to serving the homeless not drafted him, Charlie Strobel — the founder and shepherd of Room In The Inn — might have made a deal with the devil to play professional baseball. He reveled in the promise of a field of dreams, green grass stretching back to an outfield wall, a ball soaring away into the blue sky, the endless possibilities of a game not played to a clock. On a late-summer day in 2023 after his death, thousands came to First Horizon Park, home of the Nashville Sounds. They took their seats in the stands, and as Strobel’s face beamed from the scoreboard, they celebrated his life in music, prayer, words and a joyful sing-along of “Take Me Out to the Ball Game.”

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