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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 | |