Introduction / David Remick
From the bleachers. The web of the game / Roger Angell ; Ahab and Nemesis / A.J. Liebling ; Hub fans bid Kid adieu / John Updike ; The only games in town / Anthony Lane ; Race track / Bill Barich
Immortals. A sense of where you are / John McPhee ; El único matador / Lillian Ross ; Net worth / Henry Louis Gates, Jr. ; The long ride / Michael Specter ; Born slippy / John Seabrook ; The chosen one / David Owen ; Legend of a sport / Alva Johnston ; A man-child in Lotusland / Rebecca Mead
Personal best. Dangerous game / Nick Paumgarten ; The running novelist / Haruki Murakami ; Back to the basement / Nancy Franklin ; Playing Doc's games / William Finnegan ; Last of the Metroziods / Adam Gopnik ; The Sandy Frazier dream team / Ian Frazier
A deeper game. Br'er Rabbit ball / Ring Lardner ; The greens of Ireland / Herbert Warren Wind ; Tennis personalities / Martin Amis ; Project Knuckleball / Ben McGrath ; Game plan / Don DeLillo ; The art of failure / Malcolm Gladwell
Out of left field. Swimming with sharks / Charles Sprawson ; The national pastime / John Cheever ; SNO / Calvin Trillin ; Musher / Susan Orleans ; Home and away / Peter Hessler ; No obstacles / Alec Wilkinson ; A stud's life / Kevin Conley.
