The Diamond Appraised
by Craig R. Wright | 
The Summer Game
by Roger Angell | 
Five Seasons
by Roger Angell | 
The Pitch That Killed
by Mike Sowell | 
Ty and The Babe
by Tom Stanton | 
Baseball Life Advice
by Stacey May Fowles | 
The Art of Fielding
by Chad Harbach | 
Calico Joe
by John Grisham | 
The New Bill James Historical Baseball Abstract
by Bill James | 
The Contract
by Derek Jeter | 
The Soul of Baseball
by Joe Posnanski | 
October 1964
by David Halberstam | 
Miracle on 49th Street
by Mike Lupica | 
The Last Shot
by Darcy Frey | 
The Bird
by Doug Wilson | 
The Professional
by W. C. Heinz | 
Hank Greenberg
by John Rosengren | 
Babe
by Robert W. Creamer | 
The Closer
by Mariano Rivera | 
This Love Is Not For Cowards
by Robert Andrew Powell |
From the subway ride to the ballpark, through batting practice and warm-ups, to the game-winning home run, A Day in the Bleachers describes inning by inning the strategies, heroics, and ineluctable rhythms of the opening game of the 1954 World Series. Here are the spectacular exploits of the Indians and Giants, and of a young player named Willie Mays, who made the most-talked-about catch in baseball history.