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Baseball Joe #1
Baseball Joe of the Silver Stars
Baseball Joe of the Silver Stars By Lester Chadwick
- GenresBaseball
92 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 1912
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February 11, 2023
great read
I liked this book because it was fast pace with easy to get a!omg charters and good plot thank !
I liked this book because it was fast pace with easy to get a!omg charters and good plot thank !
August 5, 2025
The LibriVox free audiobook edition is recorded very nicely. The writing is insipid. In 1912 I imagine young boys loved this.
February 4, 2025
Baseball Joe of the Silver Stars; or The Rivals of Riverside was the first entry in a series of books published between 1912 and 1928. It's a typical sports story intended for boys. The hero, Joe Matson, is a talented youth who aspires to be a professional baseball player. Joe has a loving and supportive mother, although she has reservations about his dream of becoming a pro ball player. His father is an inventor who has just gotten a new job. Finally, Joe has a sister who goes to all his ballgames and is his biggest fan. With a support system like that, how can he fail?
His family moves to a new town due to his father's new job. Joe was one of the best players on his old team in the town from which he moved. He wants to join the local baseball club in his new town, but the club has all the players it needs.
Then Joe catches a break. The team's manager's wagon breaks down. Joe helps him out of his predicament, and the manager invites him to join the club as thanks for Joe's kindness. Although at first he warms the bench as a substitute, Joe proves his worth when he is given a chance to play, and finally becomes the starting pitcher, arousing the ire of a jealous teammate. Finally given a chance to pitch in the big game, you can probably figure out how things went. At the same time, Joe has to deal with two unscrupulous businessmen whom he discovers are trying to steal one of his father's patents.
Baseball Joe of the Silver Stars is a clearly written, somewhat bland, and predictable sports story. Joe and his loving family are very nice, wholesome people. Although the family encounters a few hiccups along the way, everything works out in the end. In the pre-radio and television era, the printed word reigned supreme, and Baseball Joe of the Silver Stars was the kind of clean, wholesome entertainment young people of the early twentieth century thrived on.
His family moves to a new town due to his father's new job. Joe was one of the best players on his old team in the town from which he moved. He wants to join the local baseball club in his new town, but the club has all the players it needs.
Then Joe catches a break. The team's manager's wagon breaks down. Joe helps him out of his predicament, and the manager invites him to join the club as thanks for Joe's kindness. Although at first he warms the bench as a substitute, Joe proves his worth when he is given a chance to play, and finally becomes the starting pitcher, arousing the ire of a jealous teammate. Finally given a chance to pitch in the big game, you can probably figure out how things went. At the same time, Joe has to deal with two unscrupulous businessmen whom he discovers are trying to steal one of his father's patents.
Baseball Joe of the Silver Stars is a clearly written, somewhat bland, and predictable sports story. Joe and his loving family are very nice, wholesome people. Although the family encounters a few hiccups along the way, everything works out in the end. In the pre-radio and television era, the printed word reigned supreme, and Baseball Joe of the Silver Stars was the kind of clean, wholesome entertainment young people of the early twentieth century thrived on.
Did Not Finish
February 11, 2017The librivox narrator was a little fast, and I decided anyway that I wasn't keen on reading a kids book that revolved around baseball.
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