num_pages: 336
description: Thirty great essays, profiles, and stories about America's pastime.Who's on first? / Abbott &amp; Costello --Wait till next year / Doris Kearns Goodwin --The web of the game / Roger Angell --Alibi Ike / Ring Lardner --Ty Cobb's wild ten-month fight to live / Al Stump --Hub fans bid kid adieu / John Updike --Casey at the Congress --Going to the moon / Bill Barich --The birth of Joe Hardy / Douglass Wallop --A Scotchman, a phantom, and a shiny blue jacket / Willie Morris --On Jackie Robinson / Red Barber --A Mickey Mantle koan / David James Duncan --The catch / Arnold Hano --Old well-well / Zane Grey --His most prized possession was that '54 Eddie / Ron Shelton --Keith / Pete Hamill --Baseball players called her Ma / James T. Farrell --The pitcher and the plutocrat / P.G. Wodehouse --One down, 713 to go / Damon Runyon --Roger Maris / Jimmy Cannon --Home run fever / Gary Smith --Woman whiffs Ruth and Gehrig / William E. Brandt --The silent season of a hero / Gay Talese --A native son's thoughts / Richard Ben Cramer --K as in Koufax / Vin Scully --The rocky road of Pistol Pete / W.C. Heinz --One vote for Morganna / Red Smith --Yogi / Roy Blount, Jr. --The thrill of the grass / W.P. Kinsella --The green fields of the mind / A. Bartlett Giamatti
language: English
title: The Greatest Baseball Stories Ever Told: Thirty Unforgettable Tales from the Diamond
publisher: Globe Pequot