Contents

List of Illustrations

Preface

A Word of Explanation

Chapter I: Crownsville

Chapter II: King Henry’s Court

Chapter III: Knights of Crownsville

Chapter IV: Sir Kay and the Man Who Would Be Boss

Chapter V: An Inspiration

Chapter VI: The Eclipse

Chapter VII: The Tower

Chapter VIII: The Boss

Chapter IX: The Tournament

Chapter X: Beginning to Change Civilization

Chapter XI: The Queen in Search of a Baseball Club

Chapter XII: Slow Torture

Chapter XIII: Free Agents!

Chapter XIV: Defend the Banner!

Chapter XV: Sandy’s Statistics

Chapter XVI: Morgan le Fay

Chapter XVII: A Baseball Banquet

Chapter XVIII: In the Queen’s Dungeons

Chapter XIX: Baseball as a Trade

Chapter XX: The Ogres’ Stadium

Chapter XXI: The Pilgrims

Chapter XXII: The Crocodiles

Chapter XXIII: Restoration of the Team

Chapter XXIV: A Rival Player

Chapter XXV: A Competitive Examination

Chapter XXVI: The President in the Newspaper

Chapter XXVII: The President and the Queen Travel Cognito

Chapter XXVIII: Drilling the President

Chapter XXIX: The Smallpox Hut

Chapter XXX: The Tragedy of the Big House

Chapter XXXI: Marco

Chapter XXXII: Dowley’s Humiliation

Chapter XXXIII: Twenty-first Century Political Economy

Chapter XXXIV: Slavery as a Career

Chapter XXXV: A Pitiful Incident

Chapter XXXVI: An Encounter in the Dark

Chapter XXXVII: An Awful Predicament

Chapter XXXVIII: Sandy and the Lawyers to the Rescue

Chapter XXXIX: The Knights’ Fight with the Yankees

Chapter XL: Three Years Later

Chapter XLI: The Dictum

Chapter XLII: War!

Chapter XLIII: The Battle on the Salisbury Plain

Chapter XLIV: A Postscript by the Scribe

Final P.S. by C.C.

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