Introduction

Part I: New York's Bravest and Finest
1: Once Upon a Time in Hoboken: Alexander Cartwright, Elysian Fields, and Knickerbocker Engine Company No. 12 of Manhattan
2: A Grand Gesture from Le Grande Orange: Rusty Staub and the New York Police and Fire Widows' and Children's Benefit Fund
3: It's a Family Thing: The FDNY, NYPD, and 1969 World Series in Frequency
4: I Can Hear You: The Mets, the Yankees, and 9/11

Part II: All the World's a Stage
5: A Man for all Baseball Seasons: Acting, Theater, and the One-Man Show
6: Center Stage to Central Park: Softball, Summer, and the Broadway Show League
7: City of Empires: Clubhouse, Take Me Out, and Bottom of the 9th

Part III: Words & Music
8: A Tin Pan Alley Tale: Jack Norworth, Albert Von Tilzer, and “Take Me Out to the Ball Game”
9: The Sounds of Baseball: Gladys Gooding, Jane Jarvis, and Robert Merrill
10: The Boys from New York City: Willie, Mickey, Duke, and a few other guys
11: Rhapsody in Blue and Orange: “Narco,” “OMG,” and “Meet the Mets”

Part IV: Advertising, Marketing, and Merchandising
12: Of Strikeouts and Spokesman
13: Dollars, Double Plays, and DiMaggio: The Yankees in Commercials
14: Grimace and Glory: The Rise of the 2024 Mets

Part V: Movies
15: Sultan of Swat vs. Iron Man: Comparing Hollywood's Versions of Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig
16: Cary and Mickey: The Golden Age of Hollywood Meets the Golden Age of Baseball
17: The Best There Ever Was: Roy Hobbs, the New York Knights, and The Natural

Part VI: Television
18: Come in, mystery guest…and sign in, please! Baseball, New York City, and What's My Line?
19: I Love Their Chances: Seinfeld and the Mets
20: These Are Their Stories: Baseball, Dialogue, and the Law & Order Universe

Conclusion
Bibliography
Index
About the Author