There's no place like home! / Joe Kraus -- Minnesota's Homer Hanky jurisprudence / Paul Horan and Jason Solomon -- Should cubs fans be committed? / Thomas D. Senor -- Taking one for the team / Willie Young -- There are no ties at first base / Ted Cohen -- Taking umpiring seriously / J.S. Russell -- Baseball, cheating, and tradition / Randolph Feezell -- There's no lying in baseball (wink, wink) / Mark J. Hamilton -- Democracy and dissent / Eric Bronson -- Baseball and the search for an American moral identity / William J. Morgan -- Negro leagues and the contradictions of social Darwinsim / Alex Ruck and Rob Ruck -- We're American too / Pellom McDaniels -- Zen of hitting / Gregory Bassham -- Japanese baseball and its warrior ways / Michael Brannigan -- Numbers game / Jay Bennett and Aryn Martin -- Women playing hardball / Leslie Heaphy -- Walking Barry Bonds / R. Scott Kretchhmar -- Socrates at the ballpark / Heather L. Reid