Scoring from Second: Writers on Baseball

Contents......Page 8
1. The Heat Is On for Cards, Dan O'Neill......Page 30
2. The Softball Memo, Ron Carlson......Page 33
3. Reaching Home, Susan Perabo......Page 37
4. Death of a Shortstop, Robert Vivian......Page 47
5. Opening Ceremonies, Kyle Minor......Page 55
6. Hardball, Jocelyn Bartkevicius......Page 58
7. Brothers, Andrew Dubus......Page 72
8. Jimbo, Rick Bass......Page 79
9. 2004, a Red Sox Odyssey: In a Hundred Years and Four Generations, Tim D. Stone......Page 81
10. My Life in the Big Leagues, Chris Mazza......Page 90
11. The Bad Case: A 50th Birthday Love Letter, Kurt Rheinheimer......Page 101
12. Billy Gardner's Ground Out, Floyd Skloot......Page 117
13. The Roar of the Crowd, Leslie Epstein......Page 128
14. Trading Off: A Memoir, Michael Steinberg......Page 133
15. Begotten, Not Made, Gary Forrester......Page 158
16. That's Why We're Here, Peter Ives......Page 176
17. Fielder's Choice, Lee Martin......Page 189
18. A Fan Letter to Lefty Gomez, Jeffrey Hammond......Page 196
19. In April, Anything Could Happen, Mick Cochrane......Page 211
20. What We Remember When We Remember What We Loved, Earl S. Braggs......Page 213
21. Willie Rooks's Shirt, Lee Gutkind......Page 221
22. Death in the Afternoon, Hal Crowther......Page 230
23. Meat, Michael Martone......Page 235
24. From Blue Highways, William Least Heat-Moon......Page 237
25. A Dispatch from Tucson, Larry Blakely......Page 241
26. Playing Shallow, Richard Jackson......Page 250
27. Hard to Love as the Red Socks, Luke Salisbury......Page 255
28. The Roberto Clemente Fictions, Rick Cambell......Page 266
29. Trading Heroes, Jeffrey Higa......Page 283
30. Work-ups: Baseball in the Fifties, Christopher Buckley......Page 294
31. Jose Canseco, Hero, Michael Chabon......Page 306
32. Babe Ruth's Ghost, Louis D. Rubin Jr.......Page 311
33. Throw Like a GIrl, or What Baseball Taught Me about Men and Life, Racheal Perry......Page 322
34. Sunday Morning Ball at the J, David Carkeet......Page 329
35. Good-byes, Tom Stanton......Page 333
Contributors......Page 344