Jonathan a Fink – författare

In the Baseball Gods are Real - Volume 2: The Road to the Show, I take my readers for another ride as I continue on my spiritual path. I describe how the daily practice of yoga and meditation, and a vegan diet, helped me out of a midlife crisis and led me to a new, better direction in my life, with baseball as my guide.

This book chronicles the path of Jon Perrin, my good friend and colleague at Satya Investment Management, the asset management firm I founded several years ago. I follow Perrin on his road to the show and recount several interesting and surprising adventures he experiences in his travels through baseball’s minor league system. I introduce several other baseball personalities and events, some more well-known than others, as well as some ballplayers Perrin befriended on his baseball journey.

Additionally, this book follows the road to the show for Shohei Ohtani, a sensation as a rookie, and tells stories about baseball legends Babe Ruth, Willie Mays and Hank Aaron. My readers travel with me to cities, airports and baseball stadiums across the American landscape and share my experiences as an author and die-hard baseball fanatic. I hope my readers enjoy the ride as much as I did.

As you might have guessed, I use “the road to the show” as a metaphor for life. “The Show” is symbolic for achieving goals, whatever they may be. The road is not flat or straight. There will be ups and downs along the way. But whether you are a minor league baseball player, a musician, a financial advisor or whatever else you might aspire to be in life, you will learn from every accomplishment and setback, and keep moving forward on your own road to the show. May the Baseball Gods always be with you!

In The Music Gods are Real: Volume 1 - The Road to the Show, I take my readers along for the ride as I continue on my spiritual path, this time with music as my guide. This book also chronicles the music road to the show for Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band, Phish, Widespread Panic, the Grateful Dead, Mumford & Sons, the Black Crowes, the Counting Crows, Scarecrow Collection, Patti Rothberg, the Primitive Radio Gods, Pigeons Playing Ping Pong, the Kitchen Dwellers, Iya Terra and of course Twiddle.

As you might have guessed, I use “the road to the show” as a metaphor for life. “The Show” is symbolic for achieving goals, whatever they may be. The road is not flat or straight. There will be ups and downs along the way. But whether you are a minor league baseball player, a musician, a financial advisor or whatever else you might aspire to be in life, you will learn from every accomplishment and setback and keep moving forward on your own road to the show. May the Music Gods always be with you!

In this book, The Music Gods are Real: Volume 2 - The Religion of Music, I continued along my spiritual path with music as my guide. The Music Gods orchestrated my vision quest to the Crow Tribe Reservation in Billings, Montana, mapped out my Road to Tumble Down in Burlington, Vermont, led me to the Road to Oak Ridge in Branson, Missouri, and finally, sent me to St. Louis, Missouri, after I heard the Calling of the Crows. In this edition, I also explored the religiosity of music and featured some of the most followed world religions of today such as Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism, Sikhism, Rastafarianism, and Judaism. This book also reintroduced four lesser known world religions from the past that are destined to make a comeback - Shamanism, Druidism, Hermeticism, and Gnosticism. We are all musicians in a global orchestra. Everyone has a role and an instrument to play. As world religions and their followers increasingly find more common ground with each other - such as their love for music - humanity''s orchestra will increasingly create harmonious music together.

This book is the story of the first part of my life and how I rediscovered myself. At the age of 38, a midlife crisis inspired me to explore a spiritual path. As I transformed myself through the practice of yoga and meditation, I was introduced to the Baseball Gods. 

The Baseball Gods is a term that emerged over time to explain the mysterious and coincidental events that occur in the world of baseball. When fans, sports writers, players, managers and coaches witness these miracle moments, they reference this mysterious force in the universe as the work of the Baseball Gods. 

Traversing through childhood, college, the music industry, Wall Street and, of course, the world of baseball, my story takes readers along for the ride as I experience synchronicity, winks from the universe, and divine guidance. While I grew up a self-proclaimed atheist, I now know from personal experience that the Baseball Gods are real.