Prologue
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Part I: The Good Guys
Chapter 1: Wilbert Robinson 1863-1934
Chapter 2: Cornelius Alexander McGillicuddy 1862-1956
Chapter 3: Denton True Young 1867-1955
Chapter 4: Napoleon Lajoie 1874-1959
Chapter 5: John Peter Wagner 1874-1955
Chapter 6: Joseph Jerome McGinnity 1871-1929
Chapter 7: Christopher Mathewson 1880-1925
Chapter 8: Mordecai Peter Centennial Brown 1876-1948
Chapter 9: Charles Albert Bender 1884-1954
Chapter 10: Walter Johnson 1887-1946
Chapter 11: John Franklin Baker 1886-1963
Chapter 12: Charles Arthur Vance 1891-1961
Chapter 13: George Harold Sisler 1893-1973
Chapter 14: Harold Joseph Traynor 1898-1972
Chapter 15: Joseph Vincent McCarthy 1887-1978
Chapter 16: Henry Benjamin Greenberg 1911-1986
Chapter 17: George Clyde Kell 1922-2009
Part II: The Mixed Bags
Chapter 18: John McGraw 1873-1934
Chapter 19: Edward Augustine Walsh 1882?-1959
Chapter 20: Tyrus Raymond Cobb 1886-1961
Chapter 21: Edward Trowbridge Collins 1887-1951
Chapter 22: Tristram Speaker 1888-1958
Chapter 23: Rogers Hornsby 1896-1963
Chapter 24: Waite Charles Hoyt 1899-1984
Chapter 25: William Harold Terry 1898-1989
Chapter 26: Robert Moses Grove 1900-1975
Chapter 27: Paul Glee Waner (1903-1965) and Lloyd James Waner (1906-1982)
Chapter 28: Carl Hubbell 1903-1988
Chapter 29: Leo Ernest Durocher 1905-1991
Chapter 30: Joseph Paul DiMaggio 1914-1999
Chapter 31: Mickey Charles Mantle 1931-1995
Part III: The Eccentrics
Chapter 32: George Edward Waddell 1876-1914
Chapter 33: Richard William Marquard 1886-1980
Chapter 34: Walter James Vincent Maranville 1891-1954
Chapter 35: Charles Dillon Stengel 1890-1975
Chapter 36: George Herman Ruth 1895-1948
Chapter 37: Leroy Paige 1906-1982
Chapter 38: Jay Hanna Dean 1910-1974
Chapter 39: Vernon Louis Gomez 1908-1989
Part IV: The Sad Cases
Chapter 40: Edward James Delahanty 1867-1903
Chapter 41: The Tragic Trio of Tinker, Evers, and Chance
Chapter 42: Grover Cleveland Alexander 1887-1950
Chapter 43: Henry Louis Gehrig 1903-1941
Chapter 44: Lewis Robert Wilson 1900-1948
Chapter 45: James Emory Foxx 1907-1967
Chapter 46: Joshua Gibson 1911-1947
Chapter 47: Jack Roosevelt Robinson 1919-1972
Notes
Bibliography
Index
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