From the Book - Updated ed.
Preface to the 2010 edition: Negative capability
Preface: Where memory gathers
Introduction: Hard lines / Roger Angell
Our game: beginnings to 1900
Why baseball / John Thorn
Something like a war: 1900-1910
The faith of fifty million people: 191-1920
That big son of a bitch: 1920-1930
The church of baseball / Thomas Boswell
Why would you feel sorry for me? / an interview with Buck O'Neill
Thirties baseball / Robert W. Creamer
The national pasttime: 1940-1950
Fan / Doris Kearns Goodwin
The capital of baseball: 1950-1960
Fifties baseball / George F. Will
A whole new game: 1960-1970
Baseball and African American life / Gerald Early
Always right on time / Daniel Okrent
The age of miracles and wonders: twenty-first century baseball / Kevin Baker.
