From the Book - First edition
Preface: Where memory gathers
Introduction: Hard lines / Roger Angell
1st inning: Our game : beginnings to 1900 ; Why baseball / John Thorn
2nd inning: Something like a war : 1900-1910 ; Stats / Bill James
3rd inning: The faith of fifty million people : 1910-1920 ; The minors / David Lamb
4th inning: That big son of a bitch : 1920-1930 ; The church of baseball / Thomas Boswell
5th inning: Shadow ball : 1930-1940 ; Why would you feel sorry for me? / an interview with Buck O'Neil ; Thirties baseball / Robert W. Cramer
6th inning: The national pastime : 1940-1950 ; Fan / Doris Kearns Goodwin
7th inning: The capital of baseball : 1950-1960 ; Fifties baseball / George F. Will
8th inning: A whole new ball game : 1960-1970 ; Baseball and African American life / Gerald Early
9th inning: Home : the modern era ; Always right on time / Daniel Okrent.
