item: #1 of 9 id: 19246 author: Grey, Zane title: The Young Pitcher date: None words: 56409 flesch: 93 summary: Watching from the line Ken saw Weir come to bat and stand aggressively and hit the ball hard. Breaking Training I THE VARSITY CAPTAIN Ken Ward had not been at the big university many days before he realized the miserable lot of a freshman. keywords: arthurs; ball; baseball; bat; boys; captain; coach; college; dale; day; face; field; game; good; graves; herne; hit; homans; ken; ken ward; left; look; peg; place; players; raymond; reddy; right; room; run; second; students; team; time; varsity; wayne; weir; worry cache: 19246.txt plain text: 19246.txt item: #2 of 9 id: 27584 author: Chadwick, Lester title: Baseball Joe in the Big League; or, A Young Pitcher's Hardest Struggles date: None words: 53905 flesch: 92 summary: Third place for ours! Three cheers for Joe Matson--Baseball Joe! called his teammates, who crowded around him to clap him on the back and say all sorts of nice things. Baseball Joe in the Big League OR A Young Pitcher's Hardest Struggles _ keywords: baseball joe; big; cardinals; day; game; going; good; guess; hotel; joe; league; little; look; louis; mabel; man; manager; new; pitcher; players; rad; reggie; right; shalleg; team; time; watson; way; work cache: 27584.txt plain text: 27584.txt item: #3 of 9 id: 37056 author: Chadwick, Lester title: Baseball Joe of the Silver Stars; or, The Rivals of Riverside date: None words: 53454 flesch: 92 summary: Why? I'm going to have Joe Matson pitch on the scrub. Three cheers for Baseball Joe! yelled Tom Davis, and how those cheers did ring out. keywords: arm; ball; came; captain; darrell; father; game; good; home; joe; lad; little; man; manager; matson; pitcher; place; play; practice; right; run; sam; silver; stars; team; think; time; tom; want; way cache: 37056.txt plain text: 37056.txt item: #4 of 9 id: 38897 author: Chadwick, Lester title: Baseball Joe on the School Nine; or, Pitching for the Blue Banner date: None words: 52217 flesch: 91 summary: At the sight of one lad in the uniform of Morningside, a uniform not soiled by the dust and grime of the diamond, Tom plucked Joe by the sleeve. I mean Joe Matson--Baseball Joe! keywords: ball; banner; baseball; boys; bully; captain; crowd; day; excelsior; fellows; game; going; good; guess; hall; hero; hiram; joe; joe matson; lads; luke; man; matson; morningside; new; peaches; pitcher; play; right; school; season; team; time; tom; way cache: 38897.txt plain text: 38897.txt item: #5 of 9 id: 40105 author: Chadwick, Lester title: Baseball Joe at Yale; or, Pitching for the College Championship date: None words: 54213 flesch: 92 summary: Maybe I will--so long, and the two friends parted to go their ways, one to dream over the good fortune of the other--to envy him--while Joe himself--Baseball Joe as his friends called him--thought rather regretfully of the time he must lose at college when, if he had been allowed his own way, he would have sought admission to some minor baseball league, to work himself up to a major position. To Joe baseball was as much of a business--or a profession if you like--as the pulpit was to a divinity student, or the courts to a member of the law school. keywords: ball; baseball; baseball joe; chance; coaches; college; day; game; good; guess; head; joe; man; matson; new; pitcher; place; play; practice; red; ricky; right; room; spike; team; think; time; tom; varsity; way; weston; work; yale cache: 40105.txt plain text: 40105.txt item: #6 of 9 id: 41847 author: Chadwick, Lester title: Baseball Joe in the Central League; or, Making Good as a Professional Pitcher date: None words: 53370 flesch: 92 summary: * * Copyright, 1914, by Cupples & Leon Company =Baseball Joe in the Central League= Printed in U. S. A. CONTENTS CHAPTER PAGE I DANGER 1 II OFF FOR THE SOUTH 13 III As Baseball Joe walked along the thoroughfare he was greeted by many acquaintances--old and young. keywords: ball; baseball joe; chance; clevefield; collin; day; dutton; game; good; gregory; guess; home; joe; league; little; man; manager; matson; pitcher; pittston; place; players; pop; reggie; right; run; team; thought; time; want; way; work cache: 41847.txt plain text: 41847.txt item: #7 of 9 id: 43940 author: Chadwick, Lester title: Baseball Joe, Home Run King; or, The Greatest Pitcher and Batter on Record date: None words: 56341 flesch: 89 summary: Jim had followed a little more slowly to give Joe time for the first greeting. At last Joe straightened up with a vexed exclamation. keywords: ball; baseball joe; bat; batting; boys; braxton; car; day; game; giants; good; hand; hit; home; jim; joe; league; look; mabel; man; matson; mcrae; men; new; old; pitcher; pitching; plate; reggie; right; robbie; run; second; series; team; time; way; work; world cache: 43940.txt plain text: 43940.txt item: #8 of 9 id: 50586 author: Ellis, William T. (William Thomas) title: "Billy" Sunday, the Man and His Message With his own words which have won thousands for Christ date: None words: 147617 flesch: 83 summary: Well,' I said to my friend, 'old man, you may have more at the end of the year than I've got--maybe I won't have carfare--but I'll be ahead of you. And the commissioner of the Poor Farm says there is a wonderful falling off of old men and women coming to the Poor House, because their sons and daughters are saving their money and have quit spending it for drink. keywords: baseball; bible; big; billy sunday; blood; book; boy; boys; business; campaign; chapter; chicago; children; christ; christian; church; city; converts; death; devil; die; earth; end; evangelist; face; father; feet; fellow; friend; girl; god; good; gospel; great; hand; heart; heaven; hell; help; holy; home; house; illustration; jesus; jesus christ; life; living; look; lord; lost; lot; love; man; matter; meetings; men; money; mother; need; new; old; pay; people; place; power; prayer; preacher; preaching; religion; revival; right; saloon; salvation; saved; saw; sermon; society; son; spirit; stand; street; sunday; sunday campaign; tabernacle; tell; things; time; today; want; way; whisky; wife; women; words; work; world; years; young cache: 50586.txt plain text: 50586.txt item: #9 of 9 id: 52670 author: None title: You Know Me Al: A Busher's Letters date: None words: 60829 flesch: 93 summary: Al Florrie and Marie was out to all them games and was not home takeing care of the baby at all and it is not her fault that little Al is not dead and that he was not killed by the nurse they hired to take care of him while they went to the games when I thought they was home takeing care of the baby. Well Al Florrie says it is time for me to keep my promise and take her to the moveing pictures which is $0.20 more because the one she likes round here costs a dime apeace. keywords: allen; baby; ball; callahan; club; come; day; florrie; friend al; game; good; hit; home; jack; little; man; money; pal; pitch; right; time; trip cache: 52670.txt plain text: 52670.txt