Acknowledgments
Foreword – Dick Schnap
Introduction – Kevin Kerrane
1. King of the World
Some Royal Bounties • Pardons to Ponder • A Decree on Names
2. The Sixties
A Bad Day for Conservatives • Banks Near Death After Arena Kayo • Hayward Rants, Raves After Arena Victory • Phillies Enter No-Man's Land • Fear and Fatigue • Forgetting How • Cheers for New Champs • Now We All Must Believe • Detoured from Greatness
3. Gallery
Hamlet in Pinstripes • Poor Old Hughie • Shadows of the Game • Height of Concern • One Slump Pete Won't Snap • He Made a Difference • He Crossed That Bridge • The Sphinx of the Schuylkill • A Higher Perspective • Remembering Mickey • Last of the True Dodgers • Double X
4. The Seventies
A Shadow, Finally Sliding to Rest • The Night Fans Tore the Park Apart • K's and O's • Red Eyes and Black Eyes • Fisk Gives Red Sox Another Shot • A Selection of Ozarkisms • The Mouse That Roared • The Ten-Minute Collapse • The Moon Is Blue • Homer Ends Odyssey, 23-22 • The Ghost of Clemente
5. Hell's Team
6. The Eighties
Dealt for Peanuts • An Obscene Loss • The Catch • Corrales Out of the Lineup • Morgan's Bat Comes of Age • Report from Earth • A Postcard from Spring Training • Sincere Appreciation • Soul on Ice • Spinks Blinks • Making Money the Old-Fashioned Way • Gibson Writers New Chapter in Series Lore • 'It's an Earthquake'
7. Thumbs Down
Mooning Miami • Ross Perot's Dumber Brother • Schottzie 02 Could Run Reds Better • The Tonya Chronicles • A New York State of Mind • Now We've Seen the Real Rollie • Home of the Boobirds • Stereophonic Boredom
8. The Nineties
No More Tears • When Monica Met Steffi • Yo, Fidel, You're in my Seat! • Ear Whacks • Classic Hurler Caps Classic Series • Heartbreak and Class Counsel Phils Keep Chins Clean for Top Doc • In a Remote Sense, I Can Be Like Mike • Watching Mitch Is Sheer Torture • One-Armed Man Was Giant-Killer • Lousy Judging Comes in Paris • Warriors Recapture the Magic • My Son, the Replacement • A Little Hot Under the Facemasks
9. Loving the Game
The Not-So-Lost Art of Cheating • Pitching and Moaning • What's It Called Again, Mr. Ashburn? • John Kruck's Top 10 List • Popping the Cork • An X-Rated Baseball Documentary • Ripken Is What Baseball, America Were • In a Dream World, by Dick Young (as told to Bill Conlin)
