"'Baseball was my God:' Retired MLB CY Young winner Barry Zito details his path to Christ "

"Zito said that his girlfriend then gave him a Bible and encouraged him to read it instead of the self-help books he surrounded himself with.

"She said, 'lock your books up, and just read this book,'" Zito recalled. "And she handed me a Bible."

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