In This Issue:

	Noise from the Dugout Something to Cheer About by Tom Goldstein
	The Scoreboard Letters to the Editor
	The State of the Game Opening Day, as Usual by Jack LaZebnik
	The View From Left Field Corporate-Speak Fields of Dreams by Paul Schersten
	Rosters The All-Meteorologic Team by Mikhail Horowitz
	Baseball Fiction Fear Makes a Fielder's Choice by Robert Rubino
	Baseball Poetry Summer Games by Pamela Yenser The Beatles Play Shea Stadium for the First Time by Jilly Dybka
	The Great EFQ Trivia Quiz answers on p. 37 by David Paulson
	On Historical Grounds Hard Luck Mulcahy by C. Paul Rogers III
	The Dust of the Fields Behind Us After the Revolution by Roberto González Echevarría
	Baseball Fiction From the Stretch by Andrew Bomback
	Baseball Poetry The Game by Bill Meissner .190 by John Grey
	The Portsider The Jungle Game by Staff Writer
	The Numbers Game Savoring the Georgia Peach by William J. Melzer
	The Incredible EFQ Quotation Quiz The Owners by David H. Nathan
	Baseball Fiction Home Run Herschel by Ezra Olman
	Baseball Studies Slinging Hash Balls: Nineteenth-Century African American Amateur and Semiprofessional Baseball in Buffalo, New York by Kevin Grzymala
	Baseball Poetry In Outlaw Tales by Tim Peeler Robbed! Timons Esaias
	Baseball by the Books Memories for a Lifetime / by Andy Silberman The Babe in Miniature / by David Shiner Tracing the Bottom Line / by John P. Rossi Hero of a Thousand Bases . . . Or Less? / by Daniel Gabriel
	Last Ups The Documentary Maker's Dream by Mikhail Horowitz