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Joy in Mudville: the big book of baseball humor
Publisher
Doubleday
Publication Date
[1992]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
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Table of Contents
From the Book - First edition.
Introduction / Dick Schaap --
Introduction / Mort Gerberg --
Casey at the bat / Ernest Lawrence Thayer --
Casey's revenge / James Wilson --
Hrbek at the bat / Phil Bolsta --
Today's Casey finds no joy in Mudville / Mitch Albom --
McDuff on the mound / Robert Coover --
Who's on first? --
Ready or not, it's time we got started / Mike Downey --
The origins of baseball: Darwin or Doubleday? / Mort Gerberg --
Evil umpires? not in Soviet baseball / John Leo --
The true origins of baseball / Wayne N. Farr --
In the owner's box / Stephen Lehman --
The cliché expert testifies on baseball / Frank Sullivan --
Little-known moments in the history of baseball / Jerry Dumas --
Take me out to the ball game / Jack Norworth and Albert Von Tilzer --
The base ball fever / H. Angelo --
A civilized pastime / Russell Baker --
My team / Calvin Trillin --
Memoirs of a short-wave prophet / Willie Morris --
Backward, turn backward, o commentator, in thy flights / Ogden Nash --
Gee! it's a wonderful game / R.N. Lardner and G. Harris (Doc) White --
Babe Herman / John Lardner --
Philco Radio Hall of fame / Leo Durocher and Garry Moore --
I'm witcha, Duke, I'm witcha / Herb Gardner --
New York Giants 5, New York Yankees 4 / Damon Runyon --
From The congressional record / Casey Stengel --
Marvelous Marv / Stan Isaacs --
Just like the WPA / Jimmy Breslin --
End of the season / Dick Schaap --
The first crucial game in Met history / Paul D. Zimmerman and Dick Schaap --
Mets magic in Atlanta / Mort Gerberg and John Olson --
From Oh, God! / Avery Corman --
Reflections / Yogi Berra --
From Brighton Beach memoirs / Neil Simon --
A student of Attila the Hun / Ira Berkow --
Love me, love my bear / Russell Baker --
Who's on first? / J.M. Flagler --
What did we do wrong? / Garrison Keillor --
Foreword from The baseball fan's guide to spring training (1989 season) --
The fabulous Satchel Paige / Richard Donovan --
The curious case of Sidd Finch / Gorge Plimpton --
Obituary / Ring Lardner --
Dorlan's home-walk / Arthur Guiterman --
Gandhi at the bat / Chet Williamson --
Alibi Ike / Ring Lardner --
Leroy Jeffcoat / William Price Fox --
You could look it up / James Thurber --
From Veeck, as in wreck / Bill Veeck with Ed Linn --
My kingdom for Jones / Wilbur Schramm --
Cotton Woods / Ray Gotto --
Let's get the umpire's goat / Nora Bayes and Jack Norworth --
The umpire / Milton Bracker --
From Peanuts jubilee / Charles Schulz --
Small fry / William Steig --
From The great American novel / Philip Roth --
Baseball as Aida / Henry Morgan --
From You know me Al / Ring Lardner --
You know me Alice / Peter De Vries --
Over my head / Roger Angell --
Michael Crawford --
From The long season / Jim Brosnan --
From Ball four / Jim Bouton --
Note to the young / Milton Bracker --
Paaay ball! And not necessarily well / Tony Kornheiser --
My son the outfielder, and my major leaguer, Dick Stuart / Marvin Kitman.
With cartoons and comic strips / by Charles Addams, Charles Schulz, Johnny Hart, Bill Watterson, Bob Dunn and Al Scaduto, Arnold Roth, Al Ross, Jerry Dumas, Sidney Harris, Frank Modell, Mort Gerberg, H.T. Webster, Garry Trudeau, Jeff MacNelly, George Price, Willard Mullin, Jerry Robinson, Arnie Levin, Roz Chast, Joe Mirachi, Robert Mankoff, Phil Interlandi, J.B. Handelsman, Barney Tobey, Mort Walker, John Gallagher, Ernie Bushmiller, Peter Arno, Richard Decker, Whitney Darrow, Bernard Schoenbaum, Lee Lorenz, Misha Richter, Ring Lardner and Dick Dorgan, Charles Saxon, Michael Crawford, Warren Miller, Brian Savage, Fred Thomas.
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9780385421515
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