Description: Table of Contents Acknowledgments Foreword by John Thorn Introduction Prologue Where Our Story (and the Game) Began New York Springtime Home Florida The Playground New Jersey A Tale of Two Cities (and the Places In-Between) Pennsylvania The Land of Our Irish Founders Massachusetts Day Trip Connecticut The Birth of the Big Leagues Illinois Capital Heroes Maryland The Most Sacred Ground of All Virginia The Living Members I Groundbreakers Ohio Hoosier Hopes Indiana Unlikely Allies Kentucky Between pages 98 and 99 are 8 color plates containing 16 photographs Hack West Virginia The Briefest Glory Delaware Minor League Mecca North Carolina Lessons Learned Georgia Sol White and the Negro Leagues Baseball Grave Marker Project The Living Members II Unexpected Connection Texas Meeting Friends and Family Michigan So Many Brewers Wisconsin A Forbidden Land Cuba Fire and Ice Arizona The Longest Road Trip California Hometown Legend Idaho The Farthest Corner Washington The Living Members III Tickets, Both Meal and Traffic Oklahoma For the Love of It Kansas The Truth About Pete Nebraska The Home of the Negro Leagues Missouri Finding Cristbal Two Locals and a Louisiana Yankee Arkansas Blessed Mobile Alabama A Pair of Pitchers Mississippi Let the Good Times Roll Louisiana The Symbolic Ones Paradise Hawaii So Much for Symbolism The Living Members IV The White Whales, the Hall of Fame, and the Baseball Reliquary A Eulogy: April 17, 2017 Index

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