Baseball Joe in the Central League
Howard R. Garis and Lester Chadwick
Read by Donald Cummings
"Baseball Joe" Matson's great ambition is to become a professional baseball pitcher. The Baseball Joe series follows his career as he seeks to attain his goal. In this fourth volume, Joe accepts a contract to play baseball professionally, and leaves Yale to play on the Pittston team for the Central League, a "bush league" in the professional baseball hierarchy. Joe's career is helped by "Pop" Dutton, a famous pitcher now down on his luck, and hindered by a rival pitcher on the team, while at home, Joe's father is blinded by a chemical accident, and requires an expensive operation, which, if successful, will regain his sight.
Lester Chadwick is one of dozens of house pseudonyms created by the Stratemeyer Syndicate in the early to mid 1900's, to "author" children's series. Contract writers (whose identities were to remain unknown under tight secrecy) were hired to write the books in the series under the various names, usually multiple writers contributing volumes to a particular series. Howard R. Garis (1873-1962) is thought to have ghost-written most, if not all, of the 14-volume Baseball Joe series. - Summary by Donald Cummings (5 hr 10 min)
Chapters
Danger | 15:17 | Read by Donald Cummings |
Off for the South | 12:46 | Read by Donald Cummings |
An Accusation | 8:38 | Read by Donald Cummings |
In Training | 13:08 | Read by Donald Cummings |
The Clash | 10:46 | Read by Donald Cummings |
A Straight Throw | 9:41 | Read by Donald Cummings |
The Girl | 11:41 | Read by Donald Cummings |
A Parting | 8:35 | Read by Donald Cummings |
The First League Game | 12:43 | Read by Donald Cummings |
Bitterness | 9:16 | Read by Donald Cummings |
Old Pop Consoles | 7:48 | Read by Donald Cummings |
The Queer Valise | 8:58 | Read by Donald Cummings |
Mabel | 10:14 | Read by Donald Cummings |
Bad News | 8:40 | Read by Donald Cummings |
Joe’s Pluck | 10:03 | Read by Donald Cummings |
A Slim Chance | 9:43 | Read by Donald Cummings |
Old Pop Again | 10:41 | Read by Donald Cummings |
In Despair | 11:03 | Read by Donald Cummings |
A New Hold | 10:24 | Read by Donald Cummings |
Joe’s Truimph | 9:31 | Read by Donald Cummings |
A Danger Signal | 10:06 | Read by Donald Cummings |
Victory | 10:42 | Read by Donald Cummings |
The Tramp Again | 7:58 | Read by Donald Cummings |
On the Track | 9:16 | Read by Donald Cummings |
Reggie’s Auto | 10:23 | Read by Donald Cummings |
The Tramp Rendezvous | 7:32 | Read by Donald Cummings |
The Slow Watch | 10:24 | Read by Donald Cummings |
The Race | 10:28 | Read by Donald Cummings |
A Diamond Battle | 11:25 | Read by Donald Cummings |
The Pennant | 12:54 | Read by Donald Cummings |
Reviews
really a fun book on a good read
Russell Hale