Baseball Chronicles: A Collection of 32 Classic Storybooks
Classic Tales of Pennant Races, Rookie Trials, Rivalry, and American SportsmanshipBy J. E. Copus, Zane Grey, Ring Lardner, William Frederick Kirk, Christy Mathewson, Burt L. Standish, Albertus T. Dudley, Hugh S. Fullerton, W. Crispin Sheppard, Lester Chadwick, Morgan Scott, H. Irving Hancock, Frank A. Warner, J. W. Duffield, Alan Captain Douglas, Mark Overton, Ralph Henry Barbour, Donald Ferguson, Raymond Stone, Grantland Rice
Length192h 6m
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Baseball Chronicles: A Collection of 32 Classic Storybooks gathers fiction, anecdote, sporting romance, and reflective prose from the formative literary culture of American baseball. Its varied pieces move between youthful aspiration, clubhouse humor, competitive suspense, moral instruction, and the mythmaking of the diamond. Stories of decisive games and emerging players stand beside comic sketches and more sentimental narratives, revealing baseball as both spectacle and social language. The contributors include journalists, sportswriters, popular novelists, and figures closely associated with athletic culture, among them Zane Grey, Ring Lardner, Christy Mathewson, Ralph Henry Barbour, Hugh S. Fullerton, and Grantland Rice. Their collective work belongs to the late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century expansion of sports writing, when mass-circulation fiction and newspaper commentary helped establish baseball as the national pastime. Distinctive regional idioms, journalistic realism, juvenile-adventure conventions, and lyrical celebration converge to portray the game's codes of character, masculinity, teamwork, and public memory. This volume is especially rewarding for readers of American popular culture, sports history, and literary history. It offers an unusual opportunity to compare thirty-two perspectives within one archive, tracing how different voices transform a shared game into drama, comedy, instruction, and legend. Readers will find both educational breadth and a lively dialogue among changing ideals of baseball.
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GenreGeneral Fiction
Length192 hrs 6 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateMar 4, 2025
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Won in the Ninth
2CHAPTER I THE WINTER TERM
3CHAPTER II THE LOWELL SPIRIT
4CHAPTER III GETTING ACQUAINTED
5CHAPTER IV THE JERRY HARRIMAN SCHOLARSHIP PRIZES
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6CHAPTER V THE FIRST LINE-UP
7CHAPTER VI PICKING THE VARSITY
8CHAPTER VII HAL AND CROSSLEY
9CHAPTER VIII BAD NEWS FROM HOME AND FLIGHT
10CHAPTER IX THE DIAMOND MEDAL
11CHAPTER X UNDER SUSPICION
12CHAPTER XI THE STUDENT DETECTIVES
13CHAPTER XII HAL IS DISCOVERED
14CHAPTER XIII HANS TAKES A TRIP
15CHAPTER XIV PREPARATIONS AT THE RIVAL COLLEGE
16CHAPTER XV THE “LOWELL REPORTER”
17CHAPTER XVI THE ALUMNI GAME
18CHAPTER XVII THE MAKING OF A FAN
19CHAPTER XVIII THE TRIP TO JEFFERSON
20CHAPTER XIX BEFORE THE BATTLE
21CHAPTER XX THE FIRST GAME
22CHAPTER XXI RETURNING HOME
23CHAPTER XXII DISTINGUISHED FANS
24CHAPTER XXIII THE SECOND STRUGGLE
25CHAPTER XXIV HANS’ SECOND TRIP TO NEW YORK
26CHAPTER XXV THE FINAL GAME
27CHAPTER XXVI HAL-HONUSED
28CHAPTER XXVII AWARDING THE PRIZES
29CHAPTER XXVIII SATO WRITES HOME
30Jimmy Kirkland and the Plot for a Pennant
31CHAPTER I (pt. 1)
32CHAPTER I (pt. 2)
33CHAPTER I (pt. 3)
34Dick Merriwell's Day; Or, Iron Nerve
35CHAPTER I THE GREAT CRISIS.
36CHAPTER II TOM FERNALD’S PROPOSITION.
37CHAPTER III A WORTHY PAIR.
38CHAPTER IV ON PEACEFUL POINT.
39CHAPTER V THE DOPE WORKS.
40CHAPTER VI BUCKHART’S BLUNDER.
41CHAPTER VII THE TRAMP STEPS IN.
42CHAPTER VIII BRAD LEARNS THE TRUTH.
43CHAPTER IX CHANGING THE SCHEDULE.
44CHAPTER X AT THE CLUBHOUSE.
45CHAPTER XI THE BOXING BOUT.
46CHAPTER XII AN IMPROMPTU CANOE RACE.
47CHAPTER XIII COLE’S CHANGE OF HEART.
48CHAPTER XIV TRICKS COME THICK.
49CHAPTER XV McLANE AND HIS PEACEMAKERS.
50CHAPTER XVI THE RETURN OF GRIMES.
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