Introduction. A generation in search of a hero
2. The catcher as tough guy
3. The catcher as indispensable
4. The catcher as one in a million
5. The catcher as a man in disguise
7. Protecting the catcher's face (but bruising his ego)
8. "A lot of fools in the crowd laugh at him"
9. The thinking-man catcher
10. The catcher as desperado
11. Harry Decker, the "Don Juan of shaven head"
12. The 1890s : "an era when most of the catchers were pot-bellied and couldn't get out of their own way"
13. "The last of the old guard of ball players"
14. A new pitch and a new crisis
15. An enduring new model
Afterword. The man the Hall of Fame forgot.
