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Teen-Age Baseball Stories
This book is a facsimile reprint and may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages.
256 pages, Paperback
First published September 12, 2007
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December 14, 2025
This 1948 short story anthology is more fun than a barrel full of left-handed second basemen. Without irony or cynicism, each tale (usually centered around a "big game") depends purely on baseball for building tension and suspense. For instance--can the pitcher--in the last of the 9th with a one-run lead, runners on second & third and only one out--still win the game?
Most of the stories center around high school or minor league players, but one hilarious yarn ("Four-Legged Baseball," by Nathan B. Lincoln) is about teams representing rival ranches out West playing on horseback--with the key last-of-the-9th play involving someone shooting the ball out of the air before it gets to the catcher.
That's the only instance of gunplay, though. The other stories are almost all pure baseball and that's all they need to be.
Most of the stories center around high school or minor league players, but one hilarious yarn ("Four-Legged Baseball," by Nathan B. Lincoln) is about teams representing rival ranches out West playing on horseback--with the key last-of-the-9th play involving someone shooting the ball out of the air before it gets to the catcher.
That's the only instance of gunplay, though. The other stories are almost all pure baseball and that's all they need to be.
January 11, 2016
The second book I've read from a collection of sports stories written for teenagers. Both books were Christmas presents from my daughter. These stories were written before I was born, more than 60 years ago. Baseball lingo was a bit different in those days. Fair reading for youth.
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