The Temple of Baseball Author:Richard Grossinger (Editor) The Temple of Baseball gathers together the best writing on, about, and around the sport that is "played forever in the green fields of the mind"?baseball. America's favorite pastime is celebrated in story, essay, poetry, and song. This is the collection baseball fans and friends have been waiting for. — The Temple of Basebal... more »l / Lowell Cohn --
The Wrong Stuff / Bill Lee --
A Kind of Love / Andrie Codreseco --
Shoeless Joe Jackson Comes to Iowa / W.P. Kinsella --
Second Base and Other Situations --
Dreaming of Three Rivers / Tom Clark --
The Last Baseball Samurai / Tom Clark --
Mark Fidrych / Tom Clark --
Time rotates but there is only one season / Tom Clark --
Reggie at 37 / Tom Clark --
Fidel's Last Pitch / John Krich --
Captain Sal and the Age of Irony / John Krich --
Never Get This Close To Anything You Love / John Krich --
Berkeley Softball / Richard Grossinger --
Softball Season / Alan Lelchuk --
Playing POssum / James B. Carothers --
The Aerodynamics of An Irishman / Barry Gifford --
Backyard / Rochelle Nameroff --
The Thrill of the Grass / W.P. Kinsella --
Spring Training / Lynn Rigney Schott --
A Poem for Ed "Whitey" Ford / Jonathan Holden --
In Memory of Dale Long / Jonathan Holden --
Win Some, Lose Some and Some Are Rained Out / Ed Mickelson --
Stan Bahnsen / Joel Lewis and Ed Smith --
to Horace Clarke in St. Croix / Joel Lewis and Ed Smith --
The Yankee Clipper and Cap't Ahab / Stephen Cormany --
Sorcery in the Event / Stephen Cormany --
El Paso vs jackson at the Dudley Dome / Bobby Byrd --
Rules for a Softball Game, Office Picnic, 1984 / Bobby Byrd --
Of Bad Luck and Miracles / Bobby Byrd --
Innings in Infinity / Richard J. Rockman --
Tish B'Av at Fenway Park / David Kronfeld --
All-Zen Tem / Mikhail Horowitz --
Mythopoeic Playoffs / Mikhail Horowitz --
Father's Day 1975 / Mikhail Horowitz --
Japanese Home-Run King Gives True Story on Famous Jaiku / Jim Cohn --
Portables Tigers Baseball Column (1984) / Jim Cohn --
A Zen Way of Basebell / Sadaharu Oh --
Bred To A Harder Thing Than Triumph / Thomas Boswell --
Public and Private Baseball: Notes on the 1984 Mets, With a Retrospective of Met History / Richard Grossinger --