Intro -- Advance Praise -- The Only Way Is the Steady Way: Essays on Baseball, Ichiro, and How We Watch the Game -- Copyright information -- Dedication and epigraph -- Author's Note -- Love in the Time of -- A Handful of Dirt -- The Glove Goes on the Hand You Don't Throw With -- Snap, Go, Fling -- A Photograph of Gaylord Perry Being Investigated for Foreign Substances -- The Weight of Expectation -- American Berserk -- Your 2003 Detroit Tigers -- Pedro Guerrero -- ICHIRO SUZUKI, THE STAR OF BASEBALL -- Spoke, Peck, and the Greatest Baseball Game Ever Played in Peterborough -- Relics -- Junior, and the Way Things Were -- Ichiro Runs the Numbers Down -- Simulacra -- Overrunning It -- Timelines -- Don't Stop to Count the Years -- Dooley Womack -- Convergences -- Made to be Broken -- I Shall Not Pass This Way Again -- The Sense of an Ending -- Jim Beam -- Every Fifth Day -- A Means of Coping -- Hyperion -- Acknowledgements -- About the Author -- About Invisible Publishing. |