The Norton book of sports / edited by George Plimpton.

Contents: Introduction (p.13)
Spring (p.23). The celebrated jumping frog of Calaveras County / Mark Twain (p.25)
Morning workout / Babette Deutsch (p.30)
The longest silence / Thomas McGuane (p.32)
Old timers' day / Donald Hall (p.40)
The feel / Paul Gallico (p.41)
From Faster (with Peter Manso) / Jackie Stewart (p.50)
Boxing with the naked eye / A.J. Liebling (p.55)
A fan's notes on Earl Monroe / Woody Allen (p.64)
Sports talk with a non-fan / Frederick C. Klein (p.72)
From an exaltation of larks / James Lipton (p.74)
Adventure's end / Sir Edmund Hillary (p.76)
The heart of a goof / P.G. Wodehouse (p.87)
Why pitchers can't hit / Jim Brosnan
The old man and the tee / Wilfrid Sheed (p.110)
A very solid book / Mike Royko (p.114).

Contents (cont.): Summer (p.117). On the ball / Roger Angell (p.119)
What Shakespeare knew about baseball / Earl L. Dachslager (p.120)
From Of time and the river / Thomas Wolfe (p.121)
The thrill of the grass / W.P. Kinsella (p.121)
A snorkeler's tale / Ira Berkow (p.129)
Centre Court / John McPhee (p.131)
The pro / John Updike (p.157)
Alibi Ike / Ring Lardner (p.161)
Nineteen big ones / David Allan Evans (p.178)
Up at the hall / Roger Angell (p.181)
Casey Stengel's secret / Clay Felker (p.200)
A snapshot for Miss Bricka who lost in the semi-final round of the Pennsylvania Lawn Tennis Tournament at Haverford, July, 1960 / Robert Wallace (p.204)
Art Larsen / Gordon Forbes (p.205).

Contents (cont.): Prothalamion / Maxine Kumin (p.209)
Vince Lombardi / George Plimpton and William Curry (p.210)
Hits and runs / Carl Sandburg (p.224)
The best-known figure in England / Sir Bernard Darwin (p.224)
Game old Merrimynn / James Joyce (p.228)
Why Professor Waddems never broke a hundred / Don Marquis (p.230)
You could look it up / James Thurber (p.237)
Son of interesting losers / Tom Clark (p.250)
Attitude / Garrison Keillor (p.252)
Autumn (p.257). Autumn begins in Martins Ferry, Ohio / James Wright (p.259)
Casey at the bat / Ernest Lawrence Thayer (p.259)
Casey has struck out / Art Buchwald (p.262)
The Hector Quesadilla story / T. Coraghessan Boyle (p.264)
Mother / Anonymous (p.274).

Contents (cont.): The last American hero / Tom Wolfe (p.275)
Pele / Paul West (p.308)
Sky diving / Richmond Lattimore (p.309)
Fred Snodgrass / Lawrence Ritter (p.309)
The crucial role fear plays in sports / Roger Kahn (p.329)
The loser / Gay Talese (p.336)
Polo Match / John Ciardi (p.353)
Hub fans bid kid adieu / John Updike (p.355)
1951 : New york Giants 5, Brooklyn Dodgers 4 / Red Smith (p.367)
Kaleidoscope : personality of the Babe / Robert W. Creamer (p.370)
The Babe / Garrison Keillor (p.385)
From End zone / Don DeLillo (p.389)
Winter (p.397). The hockey poem / Robert Bly (p.399)
A large number of persons / Paul Gallico (p.401)
The fight / William Hazlitt (p.405)
Sports / Bill Russell (p.409)
Death (of Paret) / Norman Mailer (p.416).

Contents (cont.): Patrick Ewing takes a foul shot / Diane Ackerman (p.421)
The hockey sweater / Roch Carrier (trans. Sheila Fischman) (p.422)
Guy Lafleur / Ken Dryden (p.424)
Skiers / Robert Penn Warren (p.430)
Stymie
common folks / Joe H. Palmer (p.431)
From Open net / George Plimpton (p.434)
Scoring / Kent Cartwright (p.443)
They also serve who only sit and sit and sit / Scott Ostler (p.444)
Skier / Robert Francis (p.448)
99 reasons why baseball is better than football / Thomas Boswell (p.448)
Classics; semi-classics / Lee Green; George Plimpton (p.453)
Notes on contributors (p.475)
Acknowledgments (p.483)
Index (p.487).