From the Book - First edition.
Foreword / by Malcolm Gladwell --
Introduction / by Mike Pesca --
What if Muhammad Ali had gotten his draft deferment? / by Leigh Montville --
What if football had been deemed too boring in 1899? / by Jason Gay --
What if the United States had boycotted Hitler's Olympics? / by Shira Springer --
What if the 2017 Golden State Warriors traveled through time to play the greatest teams in NBA history? / by Ethan Sherwood Strauss --
What if horse racing was still the most popular sport in America? / by Peter Thomas Fornatale --
What if I hadn't written that fan letter to Dan Majerle in April 1993? / by Jesse Eisenberg --
What if Wayne Gretzky hadn't been an Oiler? / by Katie Baker --
What if Major League Baseball had started testing for steroids in 1991? / by Ben Lindbergh --
What if Bucky Dent hadn't homered over the Green Monster in 1978? / by Stefan Fatsis --
What if Jerry Tarkanian had beaten the NCAA and liberated college basketball? / by Jonathan Hock --
What if football were reinvented today? / by Nate Jackson --
What if there had always been sports PR flacks? / by L. Jon Wertheim --
What if...Title IX never was? / by Mary Pilon --
What if Tom Brady hadn't stepped in/taken over for an injured Drew Bledsoe? / by Steve Kornacki --
What if the 1999 U.S. Women's National Soccer Team had lost the Women's World Cup? / by Louisa Thomas --
What if the Olympics had never dropped tug-of-war? / by Nate DiMeo --
What if Billie Jean King had lost to Bobby Riggs? / by Wayne Coffey --
What if Mike Tyson had beaten Buster Douglas? / by Jeremy Schaap --
What if? A tour through NBA injury history / by Neil Paine ; with introductory notes on the topic "What if Bernard King hadn't been injured? / by Mike Pesca --
What if the Dodgers had left Brooklyn? / by Robert Siegel --
What if a blimp full of money had exploded over World Track Headquarters in 1952? / by Paul Snyder --
What if baseball teams only played once a week? / by Will Leitch --
What if Bobby Fischer had received proper psychiatric help? / by Dylan Loeb McClain --
What if basketball rims were smaller than basketballs? / by Jon Bois --
What if the AFL-NFL merger had been complicated by the Jets' loss in Super Bowl III? / by Michael MacCambridge --
What if the National League had the DH? / by Rob Neyer --
What if Nixon had been good at football? / by Julian E. Zelizer --
What if Bill Walton had healthy knees? / by Bob Ryan --
What if Roger Bannister trained today? / by Liam Boylan-Pratt --
What if Nat "Sweetwater" Clifton's pass hadn't gone awry? / by Claude Johnson --
What if Game 7 of the 2016 World Series had turned into every sports movie ever made? / by Josh Levin.
