Who payed the game? -- The Irish and Jim Crow baseball -- A line is drawn in Pennsylvania -- Before Greenberg there was pike -- Ted Sullivan and baseball's Hibernian spirit -- From famine fields to the ball fields and the front office -- The pedigrees of mineteenth century managers -- Ballplayer : a seasonal occupation -- Two fathers for Philadelphia baseball -- Intemperance on the emerald diamond -- The ladies they will all turn out -- "A game played by idiots for morons" -- Root, root, rooting for the home team -- In open fields and on wooden planks -- Huzzah for the class of '45.