'''Baseball Chapel''' is an organization that provides Christian chaplains to professional baseball teams.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.breakingchristiannews.com/articles/display_art.html?ID=3086 |title=God in the Game - How Baseball Chapel Helps Keep Players Spiritually in Tune |website=Breakingchristiannews.com |date=2006-09-29 |accessdate=2016-04-14}}</ref> It was founded by Watson Spoelstra in 1973, a former sportswriter in Detroit. All of the major league organizations had a chapel program put in place by 1975, just two years after being founded. In 1978, Baseball chapel expanded to minor league organizations and Latin America. In 2003 Baseball Chapel expanded into Mexico, and in 2004 to Japan. <ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.baseballchapel.org/index.cfm?Fuseaction=AboutUs |title=Baseball Chapel |publisher=Baseball Chapel |date= |accessdate=2016-04-14}}</ref> Baseball Chapel has expanded to every major league teams and to all minor league baseball teams. Baseball Chapel currently serves in more than 350 locations in both the United States and Canada.

The four main leaders of Baseball Chapel are Vince Nauss, Rob Crose, Luke Sawyer, and Steve Sisco. <ref>{{cite web|last=Ladson |first=Bill |url=http://m.mlb.com/news/article/1218222/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160312022015/http://m.mlb.com/news/article/1218222 |url-status=dead |archive-date=March 12, 2016 |title=Church apologizes, chaplain suspended |website=MLB.com |date=2016-01-20 |access-date=2016-04-14}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://scholarblogs.emory.edu/sacredmatters/2015/08/20/jewish-umpires-and-baseball-chapel/ |title=Sacred Matters &#124; Jewish Umpires and Baseball Chapel |website=Scholarblogs.emory.edu |date=2015-08-20 |accessdate=2016-04-14 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20160417173313/https://scholarblogs.emory.edu/sacredmatters/2015/08/20/jewish-umpires-and-baseball-chapel/ |archivedate=2016-04-17 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/09/30/AR2005093001974.html |title=MLB Is Reviewing Baseball Chapel |website=Washingtonpost.com |date= |accessdate=2016-04-14}}</ref>

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==External links== *[http://www.baseballchapel.org/ Official website] *http://www.baseballchapel.org/documents/presentation.pdf *http://www.baseballchapel.org/index.cfm?Fuseaction=AboutUs

+ Category:Baseball organizations in the United States Category:American organizations established in 1973