Contents

Introduction

Why Base Ball Has Become Our National Game

The Model Base Ball Player

Casey at the Bat

Casey’s Revenge

The Color Line

A Whale of a Pastime

The Rube’s Honeymoon

How I Pitched the First Curve

Discovering Cy Young

Varsity Frank

Baseball Joe’s Winning Throw

Mr. Dooley on Baseball

Jinxes and What They Mean to a Ball-Player

One Down 713 to Go

How I Lost the 1915 World Series

The Crab

My Roomy

The Longest Game

Fullerton Says Seven Members of the White Sox Will Be Missing Next Spring

His Own Stuff

The Pitcher and the Plutocrat

The Slide of Paul Revere

Sources