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| Foreword | |
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| Editors' Acknowledgments | |
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| Editors' Introduction | |
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| The Origin and Purpose of Baseball | |
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| Spring Fever | |
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| Stealing Home | |
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| Spring Training | |
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| Little League Tryouts | |
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| The Catch | |
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| Baseball | |
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| The Player | |
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| 1947 | |
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| The Retarded Children Play Baseball | |
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| Asked for a Happy Memory of Her Father, She Remembers Wrigley Field | |
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| Sweet Spot | |
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| Something I Could Tell You about Love | |
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| To Fungo the Torn Ones | |
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| The Baseball Boys of 1964 | |
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| It Ain't Over ... | |
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| Instant Out | |
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| Baseball Fields Seen from the Air | |
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| Cardinals in Spring | |
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| Stop Action | |
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| How to Hit a Home Run | |
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| Blyleven's Fourth Shutout, June, 1985 | |
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| Baseball | |
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| Black Ink | |
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| A Dream of Third Base | |
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| Glory | |
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| Aesthetics | |
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| Ode to Apple Pie | |
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| A Softball Game | |
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| Listening to a Baseball Game | |
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| Singles | |
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| Players | |
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| Crowd at the Stadium | |
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| In the Red Seats | |
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| Supernatural | |
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| Minor League Rainout, Iowa | |
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| Polish-American Night, Tiger Stadium | |
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| Biographical Note | |
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| Softball | |
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| Night Baseball, 1947 | |
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| A Baseball Game | |
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| September Pears | |
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| The Gamer | |
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| Photo of a Minor League Baseball Team, ca. 1952 | |
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| Where Baseball's the Only Game in Town | |
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| Baseball Cards | |
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| Geronimo at Short | |
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| Something about Certain Old Baseball Fields | |
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| Night Baseball in the American West | |
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| Is Reality One or Many? | |
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| Southpaw | |
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| Returning to the Field | |
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| The Big League | |
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| Visiting My Boyhood Friend after His Stroke | |
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| Hits | |
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| Isn't it pretty to think so? | |
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| Catch | |
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| Old Baseball Found under a Bush | |
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| Everything But Everything | |
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| Limited Power | |
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| True Story | |
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| Baseball Haiku | |
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| Dreams Should Not Dog Great Center Fielders | |
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| The Career of Lou Proctor | |
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| Question and Answer | |
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| World Series, 1968, Southeast Asia | |
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| Short History of a Baseball | |
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| Play by Play | |
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| My Father, on the Day He Died | |
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| Baseball in Ohio | |
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| Betting on the Muse | |
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| Telephone Call | |
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| Williams in Autumn | |
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| October Play | |
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| Night Baseball | |
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| My Last Hit | |
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| Dream of a Hanging Curve | |
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| America without Baseball | |
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| Tired of Loss and Sin | |
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| Winter at the Ball Field | |
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| World Series, Game 5 | |
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| Softball Dreams | |
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| Voices of the Sea | |
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| Archives | |
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| Poem for My Father | |
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| If You Know Me at All | |
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| Final Play | |
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| Why I Love Baseball | |
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| Line Drive Caught by the Grace of God | |
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| Listening to the Ballgame | |
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| The Cure | |
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| A Dharma Talk by Johnny Roseboro, Boulder, Colorado, March 23, 1983 | |
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| Carolina League Old Timers Game | |
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| Pearly Babe | |
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| Sweet | |
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| Question: If You Had Only 24 Hours to Live, What Would You Do? | |
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| Shall I Compare Thee to a Triple Play? | |
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| Solid Single | |
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| Looking for the Baseball | |
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| Last Baseball Dream of the Season | |
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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Contributors | |