Men in Sports Book

	Introduction	1
	Olympic Funeral Games	11
	Attending the 64th Olympic Games: 520 B.C.	20
	The Chariot Race	30
	A Contest in Archery	37
	The Thousand-Mile Auto Race (Mille Miglia 1955)	43
	Caught in a Tempest	49
	The Redheaded Outfield	55
	Horseshoes	66
	The Magnificent Moment: The Called-Shot Home Run	84
	Mystic Baseball: A New Age Look	92
	Winning and Losing	101
	My Greatest Race	105
	Three Cushions	113
	Moonlight Cruising	121
	A Piece of Steak	129
	Bomaye	143
	The Patterson-Liston Fight	164
	A Bullfighter from Brooklyn	177
	Capsizing in the Rapids	187
	The Cricket Match	197
	The Salmon	207
	Once on a Sunday	212
	How the Great Football Game Was Played	225
	The Five-Play Quarterback	232
	The Pro-Football Game	240
	The Awakening of Rollo Podmarsh	253
	The Goalie	267
	The Day of the Losers	275
	The Moose	285
	Lynx-Hunting	291
	The Monarch's Last Tanto	297
	The Tournament	307
	Legends of Karate	317
	Descent from the Eiger	325
	The Maltese Cat	341
	The Yale-Harvard Boat Race	355
	The Neophyte Diver	367
	Toni Sailer: Gold in the Snow	377
	Pele	385
	The Waves at Waikiki	395
	The Swimmer	403
	Swimming the English Channel	412
	The First Golden Age	423
	Arthur Ashe vs. Clark Graebner at Forest Hills	434
	The Front Runner	443
	The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Runner	450
	Beyond the Divide	461
	My American Tour: Casey Berger, the Texas Champ	479
	Transatlantic Race	487
	Acknowledgments	497