SOURCES

“Why Base Ball Has Become Our National Game” by Albert G. Spalding. From America’s National Game (1911).

“The Model Base Ball Player” by Henry Chadwick. From Ball Player’s Chronicle (1867).

“Casey at the Bat” by Ernest Lawrence Thayer. From The San Francisco Examiner (1888).

“Casey’s Revenge” by Grantland Rice. From Base-Ball Ballads (1910).

“The Color Line” by Sol White. From Sol White’s Official Guide: History of Colored Baseball (1907).

“A Whale of a Pastime” by Brig. Gen. Frederick Funston. From Harper’s Round Table (1894).

“The Rube’s Honeymoon” by Zane Grey. From The Red-Headed Outfield (1920).

“How I Pitched the First Curve” by William Arthur (Candy) Cummings (1908).

“Discovering Cy Young” by Alfred H. Spink. From The National Game (1911).

“Varsity Frank” by Burt L. Standish. From Frank Merriwell at Yale (1903).

“Baseball Joe’s Winning Throw” by Lester Chadwick. From Baseball Joe of the Silver Stars (1912).

“Mr. Dooley on Baseball” by Finley Peter Dunne. From Mr. Dooley on Making a Will and Other Necessary Evils (1919).

“Jinxes and What They Mean to a Ball-Player” by Christy Mathewson. From Pitching in a Pinch (1912).

“One Down, 713 to Go” by Damon Runyon. From The New York American (1915).

“How I Lost the 1915 World Series” by Grover Cleveland Alexander. From Baseball (1915).

“The Crab” by Gerald Beaumont. From Hearts and the Diamond (1921).

“My Roomy” by Ring Lardner. From The Saturday Evening Post (1914).

“The Longest Game” by Ralph D. Blanpied. From The New York Times (1920).

“Fullerton Says Seven Members of the White Sox Will Be Missing Next Spring” by Hugh Fullerton. From The Chicago Herald and Examiner (1919).

“His Own Stuff” by Charles E. Van Loan. From Score by Innings (1919).

“The Pitcher and the Plutocrat” by P.G. Wodehouse. From Colliers (1910).

“The Slide of Paul Revere” by Grantland Rice. From Base-Ball Ballads (1910).