Baseball
Subtitle: a literary anthology
By: edited by Nicholas Dawidoff.
Contributors: Dawidoff, Nicholas.
Publisher: Library of America; Distributed to the trade in the U.S. by Penguin Putnam Inc.
Published: 2002
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 721
Subjects: Baseball -- Literary collections; American literature
Genres: Literary collections
Table of contents: title: Casey at the bat / Ernest L. Thayer; title: The umpire is a most unhappy man / W. Hough, F. Adams; title: Take me out to the ball game / J. Norworth; title: Baseball's sad lexicon / F.P. Adams; title: Old-fashioned pitcher / G.E. Phair; title: Baseball as the bleachers like it / C.E. Van Loan; title: From The varmint / O. Johnson; title: Baiting the umpire / G. Nathan; title: From America's national game / A.G. Spalding; title: Hail! Roger Merkle, favorite of Toledo ; Rajah's pride falls before 'G. Hooks-em' / Damon Runyon; title: From The glory of their times : Sam Crawford / L. Ritter; title: From You know me Al ; Where do you get that noise? / Ring Lardner; title: Hits & runs ; From Always the young strangers / Carl Sandburg; title: Ruth comes into his own with 2 homers / H. Broun; title: From No cheering in the press box : Richard Vidmer / J. Holtzman; title: The crowd at the ball-game ; From White mule : Fourth of July doubleheader / William Carlos Williams; title: From Baseball when the grass was real : James "Cool Papa" Bell / D. Honig; title: From Along this way / James Weldon Johnson; title: From Of time and the river / Thomas Wolfe; title: Inside the inside / Paul Gallico; title: Pitchers and catchers / M. Berg; title: You could look it up / James Thurber; title: Polo Grounds / R. Humphries; title: It was a great day in Jersey / W. Smith; title: Jamesie / J.F. Powers; title: Shine ball / J.A. Maxwell; title: From Chicago : city on the make / Nelson Algren; title: Nice work / J. Cannon; title: From Tallulah / Tallulah Bankhead; title: From The natural / Bernard Malamud; title: Dodgers defeat Yanks, 3-2, as Erskine fans 14 ; The terrible-tempered Mr. Grove / R. Smith; title: From God's country and mine / Jacques Barzun; title: Perfect day; title: a day of prowess / Robert Frost; title: My grandmother goes to Comiskey Park / J.T. Farrell; title: From Damn Yankees; title: The rocky road of Pistol Pete / W.C. Heinz; title: From The long season / J. Brosnan; title: Pitcher ; The base stealer / R. Francis; title: Hub fans bid kid Adieu / John Updike; title: Rules for staying young / Satchel Paige; title: A can of beer, a slice of cake; title: and thou, Eddie Gaedel / B. Veeck; title: Back at the Polo Grounds / M. Kempton; title: From Can't anybody here play this game? / J. Breslin; title: Baseball and writing / Marianne Moore; title: The silent season of a hero / Gay Talese; title: From North toward home / Willie Morris; title: From Portnoy's complaint / Philip Roth; title: From Ball four / J. Bouton; title: Van Lingle Mungo / D. Frishberg; title: Analysis of baseball / M. Swenson; title: From The boys of summer / R. Kahn; title: From The wrong season / J. Oppenheimer; title: From The summer game ; From Five seasons ; From Late innings ; From Season ticket / R. Angell; title: From The great American baseball card flipping, trading and bubble gum book / B.C. Boyd, F.C. Harris; title: Final twist of the drama / George Plimpton; title: From A false spring / P. Jordan; title: Carlton Fisk is my ideal / B. Mayer; title: The green fields of the mind / A.B. Giamatti; title: A day of light and shadows / J. Schwartz; title: From It looked like for ever / M. Harris; title: From The celebrant / E.R. Greenberg; title: From The autobiography of Leroi Jones / Amiri Baraka; title: From Stengel : his life and times / R. Creamer; title: The Sporting news / R. Blount, Jr.; title: The September song of Mr. October / D. Remick; title: From An American childhood / Annie Dillard; title: The streak of streaks / S.J. Gould; title: Head down / Stephen King; title: Coming to the plate, one family's ethos / M. O'Neill; title: A minors affair / R. Ford; title: Glory / Y. Komunyakaa; title: From Underworld / D. DeLillo; title: Rain delay : Toledo Mud Hens, July 8, 1994 / M. Espada; title: From Pure baseball / K. Hernandez; title: Yankee ends real corker of a mystery / B. Olney.