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• A Face in the Crowd • (2012) • novelette by Stephen King and Stewart O'Nan
• Ahab at the Helm • (1964) • poem by Ray Bradbury
• Arthur Sternbach Brings the Curveball to Mars • [Mars (Kim Stanley Robinson)] • (1999) • short story by Kim Stanley Robinson
• Baseball • (2002) • short story by Ray Gonzalez
• Baseball Memories • (1991) • short story by Edo van Belkom
• Diamond Girls • (2005) • short story by Louise Marley
• How I Got My Nickname • (2014) • short story by W. P. Kinsella
• How to Read a Man • (2002) • short story by Valerie Sayers
• Introduction (Field of Fantasies) • (2014) • essay by Rick Wilber
• Lost October • (1992) • short story by David Sandner and Jacob Weisman
• McDuff on the Mound • (1971) • short story by Robert Coover
• My Kingdom for Jones • (1944) • short story by Wilbur Schramm
• My Last Season with the Owls • (2006) • short story by Ron Carlson
• Pitchers and Catchers • (2007) • short story by Cecilia Tan
• Ronnie on the Mound • (1958) • short story by Jack Kerouac
• Stephen to Cora to Joe • (1999) • novelette by Rick Wilber
• The Franchise • (1993) • novelette by John Kessel
• The Further Adventures of the Invisible Man • (2002) • short story by Karen Joy Fowler
• The Hanging Curve • (2002) • short story by Gardner Dozois
• The Hector Quesadilla Story • (1984) • short story by T. Coraghessan Boyle
• The House That George Built • (2009) • short story by Harry Turtledove
• The Mighty Casey • (1960) • novelette by Rod Serling
• The Southpaw • (2014) • short story by Bruce McAllister (variant of Southpaw 1993)
• Understanding Alvarado • (1975) • short story by Max Apple