Casey at the bat / Ernest L. Thayer -- Umpire is a most unhappy man / W. Hough, F. Adams -- Take me out to the ball game / J. Norworth -- Baseballs sad lexicon / F.P. Adams -- Old-fashioned pitcher / G.E. Phair -- Baseball as the bleachers like it / C.E. Van Loan -- from The varmint / O. Johnson -- Baiting the umpire / G. Nathan -- from Americas national game / A.G. Spalding -- Hail! Roger Merkle, favorite of Toledo ; Rajas pride falls before G. Hooks-em / Damon Runyon -- from The glory of their times : Sam Crawford / L. Ritter -- from You know me Al ; Where do you get that noise? / Ring Lardner -- Hits & runs ; from Always the young strangers / Carl Sandburg -- Ruth comes into his own with 2 homers / H. Broun -- from No cheering in the press box : Richard Vidmer / J. Holtzman -- The crowd at the ball-game ; from White mule : Fourth of July doubleheader / William Carlos Williams -- from Baseball when the grass was real : James "Cool Papa" Bell / D. Honig -- from Along this way / James Weldon Johnson -- from Of time and the river / Thomas Wolfe -- Inside the inside / Paul Gallico -- Pitchers and catchers / M. Berg -- You could look it up / James Thurber -- Polo Grounds / R. Humphries -- It was a great day in Jersey / W. Smith -- Jamesie / J.F. Powers -- Shine ball / J.A. Maxwell -- from Chicago : city on the make / Nelson Algren -- Nice work / J. Cannon -- from Tallulah / Tallulah Bankhead -- from The natural / Bernard Malamud -- Dodgers defeat Yanks, 3-2, as Erskine fans 14 ; The terrible-tempered Mr. Grove / R. Smith -- from Gods country and mine / Jacques Barzun -- Perfect day-- a day of prowess / Robert Frost -- My grandmother goes to Comiskey Park / J.T. Farrell -- from Damn Yankees -- The rocky road of Pistol Pete / W.C. Heinz -- from The long season / J. Brosnan -- Pitcher ; The base stealer / R. Francis -- Hub fans bid kid Adieu / John Updike -- Rules for staying young / Satchel Paige -- A can of beer, a slice of cake-- and thou, Eddie Gaedel / B. Veeck -- Back at the Polo Grounds / M. Kempton -- from Cant anybody here play this game? / J. Breslin -- Baseball and writing / Marianne Moore -- The silent season of a hero / Gay Talese -- from North toward home / Willie Morris -- from Portnoys complaint / Philip Roth -- from Ball four / J. Bouton -- Van Lingle Mungo / D. Frishberg -- Analysis of baseball / M. Swenson -- from The boys of summer / R. Kahn -- from The wrong season / J. Oppenheimer -- from The summer game ; from Five seasons ; from Late innings ; from Season ticket / R. Angell -- from The great American baseball card flipping, trading and bubble gum book / B.C. Boyd, F.C. Harris -- Final twist of the drama / George Plimpton -- from A false spring / P. Jordan -- Carlton Fisk is my ideal / B. Mayer -- The green fields of the mind / A.B. Giamatti -- A day of light and shadows / J. Schwartz --from It looked like for ever / M. Harris -- from The celebrant / E.R. Greenberg -- from The autobiography of Leroi Jones / Amiri Baraka -- from Stengel : his life and times / R. Creamer -- The Sporting news / R. Blount, Jr. -- The September song of Mr. October / D. Remick -- from An American childhood / Annie Dillard -- The streak of streaks / S.J. Gould -- Head down / Stephen King -- Coming to the plate, one familys ethos / M. ONeill -- A minors affair / R. Ford -- Glory / Y. Komunyakaa -- from Underworld / D. DeLillo -- Rain delay : Toledo Mud Hens, July 8, 1994 / M. Espada -- from Pure baseball / K. Hernandez -- Yankee ends real corker of a mystery / B. Olney.