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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 | |