Baseball: a literary anthology

Casey at the Bat / Ernest Lawrence Thayer

Umpire Is a Most Unhappy Man / Will Hough and Frank Adams

Take Me Out to the Ball Game / Jack Norworth

Baseball's Sad Lexicon / Franklin P. Adams

Old-Fashioned Pitcher / George E. Phair

Baseball as the Bleachers Like It / Charles F. van Loan

from The Varmint / Owen Johnson

Baiting the Umpire / George Jean Nathan

from America's National Game / Albert G. Spalding

Hail! Roger Merkle, Favorite of Toledo / Damon Runyon

Rajah's Pride Falls Before 'G. Hooks-em' / Damon Runyon

from The Glory of Their Times: Sam Crawford / Lawrence S. Ritter

from You Know Me Al / Ring Lardner

Where Do You Get That Noise? / Ring Lardner

Hits and Runs / Carl Sandburg

from Always the Young Strangers / Carl Sandburg

Ruth Comes Into His Own with 2 Homers / Heywood Broun

from No Cheering in the Press Box: Richards Vidmer / Jerome Holtzman

crowd at the ball game / William Carlos Williams

from White Mule: Fourth of July Doubleheader / William Carlos Williams

from Baseball When the Grass Was Real: James "Cool Papa" Bell / Donald Honig

from Along This Way / James Weldon Johnson

from Of Time and the River / Thomas Wolfe

Inside the Inside / Paul Gallico

Pitchers and Catchers / Moe Berg

You Could Look It Up / James Thurber

Polo Grounds / Rolfe Humphries

It Was a Great Day in Jersey / Wendell Smith

Jamesie / J. F. Powers

Shine Ball / James A. Maxwell

from Chicago: City on the Make / Nelson Algren

Nice Work / Jimmy Cannon

from Tallulah / Tallulah Bankhead

from The Natural / Bernard Malamud

Dodgers Defeat Yanks, 3-2, as Erskine Fans 14 / Red Smith

Terrible-Tempered Mr. Grove / Red Smith

from God's Country and Mine / Jacques Barzun

Perfect Day - A Day of Prowess / Robert Frost

My Grandmother Goes to Comiskey Park / James T. Farrell

from Damn Yankees

Rocky Road of Pistol Pete / W. C. Heinz

from The Long Season / Jim Brosnan

Pitcher / Robert Francis

Base Stealer / Robert Francis

Hub Fans Bid Kid Adieu / John Updike

Rules for Staying Young / Satchel Paige

Can of Beer, a Slice of Cake - and Thou, Eddie Gaedel / Bill Veeck

Back at the Polo Grounds / Murray Kempton

from Can't Anybody Here Play This Game? / Jimmy Breslin

Baseball and Writing / Marianne Moore

Silent Season of a Hero / Gay Talese

from North Toward Home / Willie Morris

from Portnoy's Complaint / Philip Roth

from Ball Four / Jim Bouton

Van Lingle Mungo / Dave Frishberg

Analysis of Baseball / May Swenson

from The Boys of Summer / Roger Kahn

from The Wrong Season / Joel Oppenheimer

from The Summer Game / Roger Angell

from Five Seasons / Roger Angell

from Late Innings / Roger Angell

from Season Ticket / Roger Angell

from The Great American Baseball Card Flipping, Trading and Bubble Gum Book / Brendan C. Boyd and Fred C. Harris

Final Twist of the Drama / George Plimpton

from A False Spring / Pat Jordan

Carlton Fisk Is My Ideal / Bernadette Mayer

Green Fields of the Mind / A. Bartlett Giamatti

Day of Light and Shadows / Jonathan Schwartz

from It Looked Like For Ever / Mark Harris

from The Celebrant / Eric Rolfe Greenberg

from The Autobiography of Leroi Jones / Amiri Baraka

from Stengel: His Life and Times / Robert Creamer

Sporting News / Roy Blount, Jr.

September Song of Mr. October / David Remnick

from An American Childhood / Annie Dillard

Streak of Streaks / Stephen Jay Gould

Head Down / Stephen King

Coming to the Plate, One Family's Ethos / Molly O'Neill

Minors Affair / Richard Ford

Glory / Yusef Komunyakaa

from Underworld / Don DeLillo

Rain Delay: Toledo Mud Hens, July 8, 1994 / Martin Espada

from Pure Baseball / Keith Hernandez

Yankee Ends Real Corker of a Mystery / Buster Olney.