Guides: The Syntax of Sports: Baseball

Literary Sentences

The Silent Season of a Hero
By Gay Talese, Esquire, July 1966
Hub Fans Bid Kid Adieu
By John Updike, The New Yorker (October 22, 1960)
The Natural (Excerpt)
By Bernard Malamud, The Natural (1952)
The Art of Fielding, Chapter 1
By Chat Harbach, The Art of Fielding, (2011).
The Silent Season of a Hero
By Gay Talese, Esquire, July 1966
The Last American Hero
By Tom Wolfe, The Purple Decades: A Reader (1982)
The Universal Baseball Association (Excerpt)
By Robert Coover, The Universal Baseball Association, Inc.; J. Henry Waugh, PROP., pp. 3-29 (1968)
Underworld (Excerpt)
By Don DeLillo, pp. 14-49 (1997)
"Wade Boggs"
By Jeremy Rice, Hobart (April 7, 2017)
Head Down
By Stephen King, The New Yorker (April 16, 1990)
The Old Ball Game
By Michael Chabon, Pops: Fatherhood in Pieces (2018)

Baseball and Writing
By Marianne Moore, The Complete Poems of Marianne Moore (1961)
Analysis of Baseball
By May Swenson, New and Selected Things Taking Place (1978)
Baseball
By John Updike, Endpoint and Other Poems (Alfred A. Knopf, 2009)
The Origin of Baseball
By Kenneth Patchen, City Lights Pocket Poets Anthology, edited by Lawrence Ferlinghetti (1995)
Baseball and Classicism
By Tom Clark, Light and Shade: New and Selected Poems, pp. 71-82 (2009)
Misjudged Fly Ball
By Alan Shapiro, The Best American Poetry 2006, pp. 117-118 (2006)
Domesticity
By Maxine Kumin, The Long Marriage (1996), available from The Writer's Almanac
Will We Survive?
By Peter Harris, Freeing the Hook (2013), available from The Writer's Almanac

The Art of Fielding by Chad Harbach
Call Number: Shapiro Undergraduate — 2nd Floor: PS 3608 .A72513 A87 2012
Publication Date: 2012
The Natural by Bernard Malamud; Kevin Baker (Introduction by)
Call Number: Hatcher Graduate — 3 South: 828 M238na
Publication Date: 2003
Moneyball by Michael Lewis
Call Number: Hatcher Graduate — 6 South: GV 880 .L491 2003 (also available in other locations)
Publication Date: 2003
The Boys of Summer by Roger Kahn
Call Number: Shapiro Undergraduate GV 875 .B7 K13
Publication Date: 2006
Jackie Robinson by Arnold Rampersad
Call Number: Hatcher Graduate GV 865 .R66 R34 1997
Publication Date: 1997
Eight Men Out by Eliot Asinof; Stephen Jay Gould (Introduction by)
Call Number: Shapiro Undergraduate GV 875 .C6 A8 1987
Publication Date: 2000
The Summer Game by Roger Angell
Publication Date: 2004
Shoeless Joe by W. P. Kinsella
Call Number: Hatcher Graduate 828 K5655sh
Publication Date: 1999
Faithful by Stewart O'Nan; Stephen King
Publication Date: 2005
The Old Ball Game by Frank Deford
Publication Date: 2005
Luckiest Man by Jonathan Eig
Call Number: Shapiro Undergraduate GV 865 .G4 E541 2005
Publication Date: 2006
Summerland by Michael Chabon
Publication Date: 2016

Another Side of Kerouac: The Dharma Bum as Sports Nut
By Charles Mcgrath, The New York Times (May 19, 2009)
Rounding First:
By Tobias Moskowitz and L. Ron Wertheim, Scorecasting, pp. 92-104 (2011)
The Hector Quesadilla Story
by T. Coraghessan Boyle, The Paris Review (Fall 1984)
A Team of Their Own
Meet The Players On This All-Girls Travel Squad Who Have Bigger Dreams Than Youth Baseball—They Want To Become MLB Stars.
By Jessica Luther, Bleacher Report (July 12, 2017)
The Art of Letting Go: Korean Bat Flip
by Mine Kimes, ESPN (October 4, 2016)
Fowled Away
By Bill Plaschke, Los Angeles Times (August 25, 2002)
Luckiest Man
By Jonathan Eig, NPR (2006)
A Terrible Beauty
By Charles Leerhsen, myAJC (2015)
The 9 Minutes That Almost Changed America
By Kate Nocera, Lissandra Villa, BuzzFeed News (May 14, 2018)
Chasing the ‘Holy Grail’ of Baseball Performance
By Ben Rowen, The Atlantic (July/August Issue 2018)
He told a kid to slide. Then he got sued.
By Steve Politi, NJ Advance Media (November 12, 2019)
Stealing Time
By David Grann, The New Yorker (September 5, 2005)

Flood v. Kuhn
407 U.S. 258 (1972).
Silverman v. Major League Baseball Player Relations Committee
880 F. Supp. 246 (S.D.N.Y.), aff'd, 67 F.3d 1054 (2d Cir. 1995)
Toolson v. New York Yankees
346 U.S. 356 (1953)
Popov v. Hayashi
2002 WL 31833731 (Cal. Super. Ct. 2002)
Miranda v. Selig
860 F.3d 1237 (9th Cir. 2017)
Shlensky v. Wrigley
95 Ill. App. 2d 173, 237 N.E.2d 776 (Ill. App. Ct. 1968)
Fed. Baseball Club of Baltimore v. Nat'l League of Prof'l Base Ball Clubs
259 U.S. 200, 42 S. Ct. 465, 66 L. Ed. 898 (1922)
Toolson v. New York Yankees, Inc.
346 U.S. 356, 74 S. Ct. 78, 98 L. Ed. 64 (1953)