Record details

• ISBN: 9781933821818
• ISBN: 1933821817
• ISBN: 1932994025
• Physical Description: 557 pages ; 24 cm
• Publisher: New York, N.Y. : Time Inc., c2005.

Content descriptions

General Note:

"Sports Illustrated books."

Formatted Contents Note:

Inside the Park -- Spring Has Sprung / Frank Deford 15 -- A Day of Light and Shadow / Jonathan Schwartz 34 -- No Place in the Shade / Mark Kram 49 -- A Day of Prowess / Robert Frost 57 -- Ballad of Joe Moock / Steve Rushin 61 -- An Outfielder for Hiroshima / Mark Harris 71 -- Dream of Glory on the Mound / George Plimpton 81 -- Most Exciting 12 Seconds in Sports / Roy Blount Jr. 96 -- Towering Shots -- Year, the Moment and Johnny Podres / Robert Creamer 110 -- Importance of Being Barry / Richard Hoffer 115 -- End of the Glorious Ordeal / Ron Fimrite 127 -- Williams Does It! / Richard Hoffer 131 -- Heady Stuff / Tom Verducci 136 -- You Had to See It to Believe It / Rick Reilly 143 -- Hand It to Cal / Richard Hoffer 146 -- One of a Kind -- Heaven Help Marge Schott / Rick Reilly 154 -- Guiding Light / Steve Wulf 169 -- Transistor Kid / Robert Creamer 181 -- He Does It by the Numbers / Daniel Okrent 193 -- Bird Fell to Earth / Gary Smith 204 -- Master of the Joyful Illusion / William Barry Furlong 220 -- Spirit of St. Louis / Rick Reilly 231 -- Max / Steve Wulf 234 -- Giants -- Aches and Pains and Three Batting Titles / Myron Cope 248 -- Mick Always Swung from the Heels / Richard Hoffer 259 -- Left Arm of God / Tom Verducci 263 -- Quiet Warrior / Esmeralda Santiago 279 -- 'Everyone Is Helpless and in Awe' / Roy Blount Jr. 286 -- Going Fishing with the Kid / John Underwood 301 -- 600 and Counting / Tom Verducci 315 -- God's Squads -- Motley Crew / Steve Rushin 320 -- Worst Baseball Team Ever / Jimmy Breslin 333 -- Lost in History / William Nack 343 -- Hey, Chicago, Wait Till This Year / Rick Telander 357 -- At the End of the Curse, a Blessing / Tom Verducci 365 -- A Series to Savor / Steve Rushin 381 -- Opposite Fielders -- You Can Take the Boy Out of the Country / Mark Kram 390 -- Son of Ball Four / Jim Bouton 399 -- Hub Hails Its Hobbling Hero / Peter Gammons 415 -- Love, Hate and Billy Martin / Frank DeFord 421 -- Benching of a Legend / Roger Kahn 435 -- At Full Blast / Jeff Pearlman 441 -- Me and Hutch / Jim Brosnan 447 -- Totally Juiced / Tom Verducci 459 -- Good Stuff -- Sound of Summer / Steve Ruskin 472 -- Tiger Tales / Leigh Montville 475 -- Waiting Game / Jack McCallum 480 -- Against the Grain / Steven Cannella 486 -- You Could Look It Up -- From the Hill to the Hall / Herbert Warren Wind 492 -- Baseball's Johnny Appleseed / Harold Peterson 503 -- Still a Grand Old Game / Roger Kahn 515 -- This Old House / William Nack 545.

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Baseball.