Table of Contents
Introduction ix
Why Base Ball Has Become National Game Albert G. Spalding 1
The Model Base Ball Player Henry Chadwick 11
Casey At The Bat Ernest Lawrence Thayer 17
CASEY'S Revenge Grantland Rice 23
The Color Line Sol While 29
A Whale of A Pastime Brig. Gen. Frederick Funston 37
The RUBE'S Honeymoon Zane Grey 45
How I Pitched The First Curve Candy Cummings 63
Discovering Cy Young Alfred H. Spink 69
Varsity Frank Burt L. Standish 75
Baseball JOE'S Winning Throw Lester Chadwick 89
Mr. Dooley On Baseball Finley Peter Dunne 101
Jinxes and What They Mean To A Ball-Player Christy Mathewson 107
One Down 713 To Go Damon Runyon 125
How I Lost The 1915 World Series Grover Cleveland Alexander 131
The Crab Gerald Beaumont 141
My Roomy Ring Lardner 161
The Longest Game Ralph D. Blanpled 189
Fullerton Says Seven Members of The White Sox Will Be Missing Next Spring Hugh S. Fullerton 195
His Own Stuff Charles E. Van Loan 199
The Pitcher and The Plutocrat P. G. Wodehouse 227
The Slide of Paul Revere Grantland Rice 245
Sources 251