The National Pastime: Premiere Edition (1982)
- John Thorn: Introduction to The National Pastime: Premiere Edition
John Thorn - The Early Years: A Gallery
Mark Rucker and Lew Lipset - Modern Times
Stuart Leeds - The Egyptian and the Greyhounds
Lew Lipset - The Great New York Team of 1927—And It Wasn’t The Yankees
Fred Stein - Goose Goslin’s Induction Day
Lawrence S. Ritter - All the Record Books are Wrong
Frank J. Williams - How Fast Was Cool Papa Bell?
Jim Bankes - Books Before Baseball: A Personal History
Harold Seymour, Ph.D. - Runs and Wins
Pete Palmer - Ballparks: A Quiz
Bob Bluthardt - The Writer’s Game: The Field Of Play
David Sanders - From a Researcher’s Notebook: Baltimore, the Eastern Shore, And More (1982)
Al Kermisch - Double Joe Dwyer: A Life In the Bushes
Gerald Tomlinson - Ladies and Gentlemen, Presenting Marty McHale
Lawrence S. Ritter - A Tale of Two Sluggers: Roger Maris and Hack Wilson
Don Nelson - Dandy at Third: Ray Dandridge
John B. Holway - Baseball’s Misbegottens: Expansion Era Managers
David Voigt - The Merkle Blunder: A Kaleidoscopic View
G. H. Fleming - 19th-Century Baseball Deserves Equal Time
Art Ahrens - Nate Colbert’s Unknown RBI Record
Bob Carroll - Remembrance of Summers Past
Bob Broeg