Add this to your cart with any other item to receive this book FREE! Read 1 time, smoke free home. The Greatest Baseball Stories Ever Told: Thirty Unforgettable Tales from the Diamond Thirty great essays, profiles, and stories about America's pastime. Who's on first? / Abbott & Costello -- Wait till next year / Doris Kearns Goodwin -- The web of the game / Roger Angell -- Alibi Ike / Ring Lardner -- Ty Cobb's wild ten-month fight to live / Al Stump -- Hub fans bid kid adieu / John Updike -- Casey at the Congress -- Going to the moon / Bill Barich -- The birth of Joe Hardy / Douglass Wallop -- A Scotchman, a phantom, and a shiny blue jacket / Willie Morris -- On Jackie Robinson / Red Barber -- A Mickey Mantle koan / David James Duncan -- The catch / Arnold Hano -- Old well-well / Zane Grey -- His most prized possession was that '54 Eddie / Ron Shelton -- Keith / Pete Hamill -- Baseball players called her Ma / James T. Farrell -- The pitcher and the plutocrat / P.G. Wodehouse -- One down, 713 to go / Damon Runyon -- Roger Maris / Jimmy Cannon -- Home run fever / Gary Smith -- Woman whiffs Ruth and Gehrig / William E. Brandt -- The silent season of a hero / Gay Talese -- A native son's thoughts / Richard Ben Cramer -- K as in Koufax / Vin Scully -- The rocky road of Pistol Pete / W.C. Heinz -- One vote for Morganna / Red Smith -- Yogi / Roy Blount, Jr. -- The thrill of the grass / W.P. Kinsella -- The green fields of the mind / A. Bartlett Giamatti