CONTENTS

Title Page

Copyright

Introduction

 

Why Base Ball Has Become Our National Game
by Albert G. Spalding

 

The Model Base Ball Player
by Henry Chadwick

 

Casey at the Bat
by Ernest Lawrence Thayer

 

Casey’s Revenge
by Grantland Rice

 

The Color Line
by Sol White

 

A Whale of a Pastime
by Brig. Gen. Frederick Funston

 

The Rube’s Honeymoon
by Zane Grey

 

How I Pitched the First Curve
by Candy Cummings

 

Discovering Cy Young
by Alfred H. Spink

 

Varsity Frank
by Burt L. Standish

 

Baseball Joe’s Winning Throw
by Lester Chadwick

 

Mr. Dooley on Baseball
by Finley Peter Dunne

 

Jinxes and What They Mean to a Ball-Player
by Christy Mathewson

 

One Down, 713 to Go
by Damon Runyon

 

How I Lost the 1915 World Series
by Grover Cleveland Alexander

 

The Crab
by Gerald Beaumont

 

My Roomy
by Ring Lardner

 

The Longest Game
by Ralph D. Blanpied

 

Fullerton Says Seven Members of the White Sox Will Be Missing Next Spring
by High S. Fullerton

 

His Own Stuff
by Charles E. Van Loan

 

The Pitcher and the Plutocrat
by P.G. Wodehouse

 

The Slide of Paul Revere
by Grantland Rice

 

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