Classic baseball stories
By: edited by Jeff Silverman.
Contributors: Silverman, Jeff, 1950-
Publisher: Lyons Press
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Guilford, Conn
Language: eng
Number of pages: 290
Subjects: Baseball stories, American.; Baseball -- United States -- Anecdotes.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 289-290).
Table of contents: title: Why baseball has become our national game / by Albert G. Spalding; title: The model baseball player / by Henry Chadwick; title: Casey at the bat / by Ernest Lawrence Thayer; title: Casey's revenge / by Grantland Rice; title: The color line / by Sol White; title: A whale of a pastime / by Brig. Gen. Frederick Funston; title: The rube's honeymoon / by Zane Grey; title: How I pitched the first curve / by Candy Cummings; title: Discovering Cy Young / by Alfred H. Spink; title: Varsity Frank / by Burt L. Standish; title: Baseball Joe's winning throw / by Lester Chadwick; title: Mr. Dooley on baseball / by Finley Peter Dunne; title: Jinxes and what they mean to a ball-player / by Christy Mathewson; title: One down, 713 to go / by Damon Runyon; title: How I lost the 1915 World Series / by Grover Cleveland Alexander; title: The crab  / by Gerald Beaumont; title: My roomy / by Ring Lardner; title: The longest game / by Ralph D. Blanpied; title: Fullerton says seven members of the White Sox will be missing next spring / by Hugh S. Fullerton; title: His own stuff / by Charles E. Van Loan; title: The pitcher and the plutocrat / by P.G. Wodehouse; title: The slide of Paul Revere / by Grantland Rice.