Triumph and Tragedy in Mudville Book

	Foreword	9
	Editor's Note	21
	Seventh Inning Stretch: Baseball, Father, and Me	25
	Reflections and Experience
	Streetball from a New York City Boyhood	37
	The Babe's Final Strike	47
	The Best of Times, Almost	50
	Innings	54
	More Power to Him	56
	Rough Injustice	61
	Tripping the Light Fantastic	64
	Fenway Crowns the Millennium	68
	Times to Try a Fan's Soul	72
	Freud at the Ballpark	76
	A Time to Laugh	80
	Heroes Large, Small, and Fallen
	Mickey Mantle: The Man versus the Myth	87
	Dusty's Moment	97
	This Was a Man	102
	The Greatest Athlete of the Century	105
	The Amazing Dummy	112
	The Glory of His Time, and Ours	130
	Eight More Out	134
	Nature, History, and Statistics as Meaning
	Left Holding the Bat	143
	Why No One Hits .400 Anymore	151
	The Streak of Streaks	173
	Letter to Joe DiMaggio, January 3, 1985	188
	The Creation Myths of Cooperstown	190
	The Brain of Brawn	205
	Baseball's Reliquary: The Oddly Possible Hybrid of Shrine and University	210
	Jim Bowie's Letter and Bill Buckner's Legs	219
	Criticism
	Diamonds Are a Fan's Best Friend	243
	Angell Hits a Grand Slam with Collected Baseball Essays	248
	The Black Men Who Integrated Big League Ball	252
	Baseball and the Two Faces of Janus	257
	The H and Q of Baseball	275
	Sultan of Sentimentality	295
	Baseball: Joys and Lamentations	301
	Good Sports & Bad	322
	Jacket Art Identification	343