- 1Dedication — Chapter I — My Birthplace and Ancestry
- 2Chapter II — Boyhood Days and Memories
- 3Chapter III — Some Facts About the National Game
- 4Chapter IV — Further Facts and Figures
- 5Chapter V — The Game at Marshalltown
- 6Chapter VI — My Experience at Rockford
- 7Chapter VII — With the Athletics of Philadelphia
- 8Chapter VIII — Some Minor Diversions
- 9Chapter IX — We Ball Players Go Abroad
- 10Chapter X — The Argonauts of 1874
- 11Chapter XI — I Win One Prize and Others Follow
- 12Chapter XII — With the National League
- 13Chapter XIII — From Fourth Place to the Championship
- 14Chapter XIV — The Champions of the Early Eighties
- 15Chapter XV — We Fall Down and Climb Again
- 16Chapter XVI — Ball-Players Each and Every One
- 17Chapter XVII — While Fortune Frowns and Smiles
- 18Chapter XVIII — From Chicago to Denver
- 19Chapter XIX — From Denver to San Francisco
- 20Chapter XX — Two Weeks in California
- 21Chapter XXI — We Visit the Hawaiian Islands
- 22Chapter XXII — From Honolulu to Australia
- 23Chapter XXIII — With Our Friends in the Antipodes
- 24Chapter XXIV — Baseball Playing and Sightseeing in Australia
- 25Chapter XXV — Afloat on the Indian Sea
- 26Chapter XXVI — From Ceylon to Egypt
- 27Chapter XXVII — In the Shadow of the Pyramids
- 28Chapter XXVIII — Under the Blue Skies of Italy
- 29Chapter XXIX — Our Visit to La Belle France
- 30Chapter XXX — Through England, Scotland and Ireland
- 31Chapter XXXI — “Home, Sweet Home”
- 32Chapter XXXII — The Revolt of the Brotherhood
- 33Chapter XXXIII — My Last Years on the Ball Field
- 34Chapter XXXIV — If This Be Treason, Make the Most of It
- 35Chapter XXXV — How My Winters Were Spent
- 36Chapter XXXVI — With the Knights of the Cue
- 37Chapter XXXVII — Not Dead, but Sleeping
- 38Chapter XXXVIII — L’Envoi
- 39Amos Rusie’s Pitching
- 40Appendix. Some Newspaper Comments
A Ball Player’s Career
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