Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: the dirt beneath the fingernails
  • Invisible men
  • The pursuit of pleasures under difficulties
  • Inside baseball
  • Who'll stop the rain?
  • A diamond situated in a river bottom
  • Tom Murphy's crime
  • Return to exposition park
  • No suitable ground on the island
  • John Murphy of the polo grounds
  • Marlin Springs
  • The later years
  • The Murphys' legacy
  • Epilogue
  • Afterword: cold cases
  • Notes
  • Selected bibliography
  • Index.