Download or read book Triumph and Tragedy in Mudville written by Stephen Jay Gould and published by W W Norton & Company Incorporated. This book was released on 2003 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essays on baseball share the author's love of the national pastime as he reflects on the joys of opening day, childhood streetball, Mickey Mantle, and the contradictions of being a lifelong Yankees fan with Red Sox season tickets.