Contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Pre-Game Warm-up: Who's on First? -- First Inning: Hometown Heroes -- 1 "There's No Place Like Home!" -- 2 Minnesota's "Homer Hanky Jurisprudence": Contraction, Ethics, and the Twins -- Second Inning: You Gotta Believe! -- 3 Should Cubs Fans Be Committed? What Bleacher Bums Have to Teach Us about the Nature of Faith -- 4 Taking One for the Team: Baseball and Sacrifice -- Third Inning: The Umpire's NewClothes -- 5 There Are No Ties at First Base -- 6 Taking Umpiring Seriously: How Philosophy Can Help Umpires Make the Right Calls -- Fourth Inning: Fair or Foul? -- 7 Baseball, Cheating, and Tradition: Would Kant Cork His Bat? -- 8 There's No Lying In Baseball (Wink, Wink) -- Fifth Inning: Baseball and America -- 9 Democracy and Dissent: Why America Needs Reggie Jackson -- 10 Baseball and the Search for an American Moral Identity -- Sixth Inning: Where Have You Gone, Jackie Robinson? -- 11 The Negro Leagues and the Contradictions of Social Darwinism -- 12 We're American Too: The Negro Leagues and the Philosophy of Resistance -- Seventh Inning: The Japanese National Pastime? -- 13 The Zen of Hitting -- 14 Japanese Baseball and Its Warrior Ways? -- Eighth Inning: Behind in the Count -- 15 The Numbers Game: What Fans Should Know about the Stats They Love -- 16 Women Playing Hardball -- Ninth Inning: Under Pressure -- 17 Walking Barry Bonds: The Ethics of the Intentional Walk -- 18 Socrates at the Ballpark -- Post-Game Press Conference -- 19 Baseball and Ethics -- 19a Should Pete Rose Be in the Hall of Fame? YES -- 19b Should Pete Rose Be in the Hall of Fame? NO -- 20 Baseball and Political Philosophy -- 20a Does A-Rod Deserve So Much Money? YES -- 20b Does A-Rod Deserve So Much Money? NO -- 21 Baseball and Metaphysics -- 21a Does Superstition Help Performance? YES -- 21b Does Superstition Help Performance? NO.

22 Baseball and Legal Philosophy -- 22a Should Steroids Be Banned? YES -- 22b Should Steroids Be Banned? NO -- 23 Baseball and Aesthetics -- 23a What's the Best Baseball Movie? The Natural (1984) -- 23b What's the Best Baseball Movie? It Happens Every Spring (1949) -- 24 Baseball and Education -- 24a Were Baseball Players Better Role Models Then or Now? THEN -- 24b Were Baseball Players Better Role Models Then or Now? NOW -- The Team -- Index.