Part One　Understanding Poetry & Sports
　40-Love
　My Knicks Are Going to Beat Your Spurs
　Schusssssssss
　Basketball at 65
　On the Death of the Evansville University Basketball Team in a Plane Crash, December 13, 1977
　Matina: Last Wimbledon
　The Runner
　Runner (An Excerpt)
　The Iliad (Excerpts)
　To an Athlete Dying Young
　Casey at the Bat
　Casey's Revenge
　Game Called( 1948 Version)
　The Standing Broad Jump
　Baseball and Writing
　The Opening Game
　Dedicated to F.W.
　The Fish
　To an Athlete Turned Poet
　Ex-Basketball Player
　The Sometime Sportsman Greets the Spring
　The Zen of Racquetball
　Pole Vaulter
　The Performance
　The Death of the Race Car Driver
　Defending Walt Whitman
　Narrative : Ali (An Excerpt)
　The Sprinters
　The Sidewalk Racer or on the Skateboard
　Eton Manor
　An Ode to Football
Part Two　Understanding Short Stories & Sports
　Winter Dreams (An Excerpt)
　Lynx-Hunting
　A Piece of Steak(Excerpts)
　The Battler
　The Eighty-Yard Run
　Death [of Paret]
　The Pro
　The National Pastime
　Champion (Excerpts)
　I Want to Know Why (Excerpts)
　The Ordeal by Golf (Excepts)
Part Three　Understanding Non-fiction & Sports
　The Moose( From The Wilderness Hunter)
　How the Great Football Game Was Played
　McGraw,Mack,McCarthy and Others (From The Tumult and the Shouting )
　Lou Gehrig--An American Hero
　Farewell to Baseball Address
　The Decline of Sport
　His Name Is Muhammad( From Cosell)
　The Smaller the Ball, the Better the Book: A Game Theory of Literature
　Paper Lion
　Winning and Losing
　Hub Fans Bid Kid Adieu
　Fathers Playing Catch with Sons
　What Shakespeare Knew about Baseball
　Instant Replay ( An Excerpt)
　Days of Grace (An Excerpt)
　Into Thin Air (An Excerpt)
　What I Talk about When I Talk about Running (An Excerpt)
　Why I Run (An Excerpt)
　Fever Pitch ( An Excerpt)
　The Rapture of the Athletes Assumed into Heaven
　Game 6 ( An Excerpt)
　Born to Run (An Excerpt)
　The Fight (An Excerpt)
　Soccer in Sun and Shadow (Excerpts)
　The Game (An Excerpt)
Part Four　Understanding Novels & Sports
　The Champion ( From Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ)
　A Busher's Letter Home (From You Know Me, A1)
　The Great Gatsby (Excerpts)
　The Sun Also Rises (Excerpts)
　The Old Man and the Sea (Excerpts)
　The Catcher in the Rye (Excerpts)
　Rabbit, Run (An Excerpt)
　The Front Runner (An Excerpt)
　Friday Night Lights (An Excerpt)
　The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Runner (An Excerpt)
　Goodbye, Columbus (Excerpts)
　The Great American Novel (An Excerpt)
　American Pastoral (An Excerpt)
　The Blind Side (Excerpts)
　Once a Runner (An Excerpt)
　The Sportswriter (Excerpts)
　Underworld (Excerpts)
　Shoeless Joe ( An Excerpt)
References