Casey at the bat / Ernest L. Thayer -- The umpire is a most unhappy man / W. Hough, F. Adams -- Take me out to the ball game / J. Norworth -- Baseball's sad lexicon / F.P. Adams -- Old-fashioned pitcher / G.E. Phair -- Baseball as the bleachers like it / C.E. Van Loan -- From The varmint / O. Johnson -- Baiting the umpire / G. Nathan -- From America's national game / A.G. Spalding -- Hail! Roger Merkle, favorite of Toledo ; Rajah's pride falls before 'G. Hooks-em' / Damon Runyon -- From The glory of their times : Sam Crawford / L. Ritter -- From You know me Al ; Where do you get that noise? / Ring Lardner -- Hits & runs ; From Always the young strangers / Carl Sandburg -- Ruth comes into his own with 2 homers / H. Broun -- From No cheering in the press box : Richard Vidmer / J. Holtzman -- The crowd at the ball-game ; From White mule : Fourth of July doubleheader / William Carlos Williams -- From Baseball when the grass was real : James "Cool Papa" Bell / D. Honig -- From Along this way / James Weldon Johnson -- From Of time and the river / Thomas Wolfe -- Inside the inside / Paul Gallico --

Pitchers and catchers / M. Berg -- You could look it up / James Thurber -- Polo Grounds / R. Humphries -- It was a great day in Jersey / W. Smith -- Jamesie / J.F. Powers -- Shine ball / J.A. Maxwell -- From Chicago : city on the make / Nelson Algren -- Nice work / J. Cannon -- From Tallulah / Tallulah Bankhead -- From The natural / Bernard Malamud -- Dodgers defeat Yanks, 3-2, as Erskine fans 14 ; The terrible-tempered Mr. Grove / R. Smith -- From God's country and mine / Jacques Barzun -- Perfect day--a day of prowess / Robert Frost -- My grandmother goes to Comiskey Park / J.T. Farrell -- From Damn Yankees -- The rocky road of Pistol Pete / W.C. Heinz -- From The long season / J. Brosnan -- Pitcher ; The base stealer / R. Francis -- Hub fans bid kid Adieu / John Updike -- Rules for staying young / Satchel Paige -- A can of beer, a slice of cake--and thou, Eddie Gaedel / B. Veeck -- Back at the Polo Grounds / M. Kempton -- From Can't anybody here play this game? / J. Breslin -- Baseball and writing / Marianne Moore -- The silent season of a hero / Gay Talese -- From North toward home / Willie Morris -- From Portnoy's complaint / Philip Roth --

From Ball four / J. Bouton

Van Lingle Mungo / D. Frishberg

Analysis of baseball / M. Swenson

From The boys of summer / R. Kahn

From The wrong season / J. Oppenheimer

From The summer game ; From Five seasons ; From Late innings ; From Season ticket / R. Angell

From The great American baseball card flipping, trading and bubble gum book / B.C. Boyd, F.C. Harris

Final twist of the drama / George Plimpton

From A false spring / P. Jordan

Carlton Fisk is my ideal / B. Mayer

The green fields of the mind / A.B. Giamatti

A day of light and shadows / J. Schwartz

From It looked like for ever / M. Harris

From The celebrant / E.R. Greenberg

From The autobiography of Leroi Jones / Amiri Baraka

From Stengel : his life and times / R. Creamer

The Sporting news / R. Blount, Jr.

The September song of Mr. October / D. Remick

From An American childhood / Annie Dillard

The streak of streaks / S.J. Gould

Head down / Stephen King

Coming to the plate, one family's ethos / M. O'Neill

A minors affair / R. Ford

Glory / Y. Komunyakaa

From Underworld / D. DeLillo

Rain delay : Toledo Mud Hens, July 8, 1994 / M. Espada

From Pure baseball / K. Hernandez

Yankee ends real corker of a mystery / B. Olney.