Contents
A Word of Introduction
When the World Was Young
A Yankee Fan Grows Older
“Hello, Kid”: A Conversation with Babe Ruth
When Time Stopped for Baseball
The Greatest Baseball Game Ever Played
Hero
Jerry Izenberg: An Appreciation
Bill Bradley Remembered
Wilt Chamberlain (1936–1999)
Ted Williams (1918–2002)
Howard Cosell (1918–1995)
Arthur Ashe (1943–1993)
Are Baseball Ballplayers Happy?: A Personal Memory of Marvin Miller
Arnold Palmer at Seventy-Five
The Political Side of Arnold Palmer
Invite Everyone to the Dance
The Ten Greatest Moments in American Sports
The Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show
Extreme-Ultimate-No-Holds-Barred Fighting
Sport Magazine and Those Total Encyclopedias
Upset ! ! !
Larry Merchant: Play 42
Black and White and Sports Illustrated’s “Sportsman of the Year”
Hypocrisy at West Point
West Point Revisited
Tim McCarver
If Disaster Strikes
The NFL Overtime Rule
Roar, Lion, Roar: Columbia Football
Columbia Basketball
Columbia Baseball
I’ve Been to the Mountaintop: A Sports Fan Is Painted by LeRoy Neiman
Mickey Mantle: A Personal Remembrance
Marv Albert:“Yesss!”
Pete Rose: A Meeting Remembered
Baseball’s Steroid Problem
In the Press Box
Courtside with David Diamante
I Could Always Hit a Baseball
Destroying the High Temple
Long Ago at Madison Square Garden