Baseball as America: seeing ourselves through our national game

Our national spirit (From God's country and mine / Jacques Barzun

Baseball is our game ; To the patriotic lovers of America's game / Walt Whitman

Spalding's Commission / Tom Shieber and Ted Spencer

Baseball in Japan : the national pastime beyond national character / William Kelly

The rise of the World Series / Neil Harris

Letter from military prison / Albert D. Richardson

Green light letter / Franklin Delano Roosevelt

The front lines to the backyard / Tom Brokaw

Baseball in a time of crisis / Allan H. (Bud) Selig)

Ideals and injustices (From History of colored baseball / Sol White

This morning / Shirley Povich

Letter of invitation / F.H. LaGuardia

It didn't happen overnight / Buck O'Neil

Baseball and ethnicity / Steven Riess

From my baseball years / Philip Roth

Induction speech / Ted Williams

World Series speech / Jackie Robinson

Roberto Clemente : activist and pioneer / Bruce Markusen

Baseball migrants : dreaming in Dominican / Milton Jamail

Enjoying it hugely / Annie Glidden

Diamonds for girls / C.C. Johnson Spink

Muscle in the Bud / Barbara Gregorich)

Rooting for the team (From The natural / Bernard Malamud

Obituary of Elizabeth Dooley / Dan Shaughnessy

Music of the sphere / Tim Wiles

Fathers eating hot dogs with sons / Molly O'Neill

Leave the plate at home / Charles Camp

A gift / Michael Chabon

Why the Minnesota Twins have such big heads / Karal Ann Marling

From raising demons / Shirley Jackson

Growing up with the game / John Grisham

Our national pastime / Dave Barry

The minors : touching the American heart / David Lamb

We never called them bums / Roger Kahn

The language of numbers / Bill James

You, too, can be a general manager! / Daniel Okrent)

Enterprise and opportunity (Never far from the counting house / Warren Jay Goldstein

A ball, a bat, and a bet / Eliot Asinof

The peculiar business of baseball / Andrew Zimbalist

Leveling the playing field / Gary S. Becker

From Standing the Gaff / Harry "Steamboat" Johnson

Umpires and rules / Larry Gerlach

A can of beer, a slice of cake

and thou, Eddie Gaedel from Veeck as in wreck / Bill Veeck and Ed Linn

Beyond the bleachers : enhancing the fan experience / David Rockwell

Baubles, bangles, and bubble gum : baseball collectibles / Richard Merkin and Lawrence S. Ritter

Fighting the reserve clause / Curt Flood/Bowie Kuhn)

Sharing a common culture (Casey at bat / Ernest L. Thayer

The big show on the big screen / Joshua Siegel

Reflections on The natural / Barry Levinson with Joshua Siegel

A league of our own / Penny Marshall, Lowell Ganz, and Babaloo Mandel

Baseball as art : the American vernacular / Shelly Mehlman Dinhofer

Charlie Brown : American baseball icon / John Odell

On the air / Curt Smith)

Invention and ingenuity (About second basemen / Bid McPhee

Pitching and hitting curveballs / Robert K. Adair

The home run / George Plimpton

What wood you rather use? / Craig M. Vogel

Communicating baseball / Neil Harris)

Weaving myths (From Shoeless Joe / W.P. Kinsella

American diamonds / Gerald Early

Farewell / Roger Angell

There used to be a ballpark / Joe Raposo

The silent superstar / Paul Simon

Nobody will ever play baseball / Bob Newhart

The mythopoetics of place and memory / Charles F. Springwood

From Shoeless Joe / W.P.Kinsella.