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Introduction | |
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Casey at the Bat | |
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The Umpire Is a Most Unhappy Man | |
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Take Me Out to the Ball Game | |
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Baseball's Sad Lexicon | |
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The Old-Fashioned Pitcher | |
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Baseball as the Bleachers Like It | |
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from The Varmint | |
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Baiting the Umpire | |
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from America's National Game | |
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Hail! Roger Merkle, Favorite of Toledo | |
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Rajah's Pride Falls Before 'G. Hooks-em' | |
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from The Glory of Their Times: Sam Crawford | |
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from You Know Me Al | |
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Where Do You Get That Noise? | |
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Hits and Runs | |
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from Always the Young Strangers | |
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Ruth Comes Into His Own with 2 Homers | |
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from No Cheering in the Press Box: Richards Vidmer | |
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The crowd at the ball game | |
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from White Mule: Fourth of July Doubleheader | |
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from Baseball When the Grass Was Real: James "Cool Papa" Bell | |
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from Along This Way | |
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from Of Time and the River | |
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Inside the Inside | |
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Pitchers and Catchers | |
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You Could Look It Up | |
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Polo Grounds | |
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It Was a Great Day in Jersey | |
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Jamesie | |
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Shine Ball | |
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from Chicago: City on the Make | |
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Nice Work | |
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from Tallulah | |
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from The Natural | |
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Dodgers Defeat Yanks, 3-2, as Erskine Fans 14 | |
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The Terrible-Tempered Mr. Grove | |
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from God's Country and Mine | |
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Perfect Day - A Day of Prowess | |
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My Grandmother Goes to Comiskey Park | |
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from Damn Yankees | |
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The Rocky Road of Pistol Pete | |
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from The Long Season | |
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Pitcher | |
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The Base Stealer | |
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Hub Fans Bid Kid Adieu | |
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Rules for Staying Young | |
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A Can of Beer, a Slice of Cake - and Thou, Eddie Gaedel | |
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Back at the Polo Grounds | |
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from Can't Anybody Here Play This Game? | |
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Baseball and Writing | |
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The Silent Season of a Hero | |
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from North Toward Home | |
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from Portnoy's Complaint | |
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from Ball Four | |
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Van Lingle Mungo | |
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Analysis of Baseball | |
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from The Boys of Summer | |
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from The Wrong Season | |
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from The Summer Game | |
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from Five Seasons | |
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from Late Innings | |
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from Season Ticket | |
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from The Great American Baseball Card Flipping, Trading and Bubble Gum Book | |
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Final Twist of the Drama | |
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from A False Spring | |
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Carlton Fisk Is My Ideal | |
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The Green Fields of the Mind | |
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A Day of Light and Shadows | |
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from It Looked Like For Ever | |
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from The Celebrant | |
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from The Autobiography of Leroi Jones | |
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from Stengel: His Life and Times | |
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The Sporting News | |
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The September Song of Mr. October | |
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from An American Childhood | |
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The Streak of Streaks | |
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Head Down | |
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Coming to the Plate, One Family's Ethos | |
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A Minors Affair | |
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Glory | |
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from Underworld | |
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Rain Delay: Toledo Mud Hens, July 8, 1994 | |
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from Pure Baseball | |
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Yankee Ends Real Corker of a Mystery | |
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Sources and Acknowledgments | |