Vol. 68 nos. 3 & 4
Spring/Summer 2002
Guest edited by Randall Freisinger & William Trowbridge
EDITOR’S NOTE
Editor’s note, James McKinley
FICTION
Seasons, Al Landwehr
Hitting into the Wind, Bill Meissner
The Outfielder, Bill Meissner
What Home Can Mean, Mark Winegardner
Roger and Me, Gene Weingarten
ESSAY
Bob Gibson, Right Field and Me, John Mark Eberhart
Baseball Has Been Very, Very Good to Me, S. L. Wisenberg
Wild About Baseball, Rob Hardy
A Season of Compromise, Art Grillo
Elegy for Ebbets, Michael Steinberg
POETRY
Leeds, Alabama, George Vecsey
Cardinals in Spring, David Baker
Two Poems, Randall Freisinger
Pure Baseball, Heather Ross Miller
Two Poems, Jonathan Holden
4th Base, Gary Gildner
Baseball, Ted Kooser
Two Poems, Dan Quisenberry
Two Poems, Jim Daniels
The Outfielder, Michael Pfeifer
Long Fly, The, Stephen Behrendt
Nixon’s Last Days, Seminary Ave., John Hennessy
Two Poems, William Trowbridge
Cellar, Barry Silesky
The Game, David Clewell
The All-American Girls’ Professional Baseball League, Marjorie Maddox
Little Bay de Noc Softball Field, Catie Rosemurgy
Bush League, William Greenway
Body and Soul, B. H. Fairchild
Mantle’s Knees: A Kind of American Prayer, Mark DeFoe
Late Fall, Dodger Stadium, Steve Myers
Celebrity Signing at a Baseball Card Show, Edwin Romond
Postseason, Greg Sellers
The Double Play, Robert Wallace
A Cleared Space, Paul Martin
Catching Heart Attacks, Jack Driscoll
The Sacrifice, Jim Simmerman
Full Count, Charles Harper Webb
December Ballfield, Missouri River Breaks, Chris Dombrowski
The Local Nine, David Roderick
Running Bases, Rick Smith
Four Poems, William Kloefkorn
INTERVIEW
Black Players, White Baseball, an interview with Buck O’Neil, conducted by James McKinley
ARTWORK
Photographs by Anonymous, Gloria Baker Feinstein, and William Kirk