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Title: Baseball Joe in the Big League
or, A Young Pitcher's Hardest Struggles

Author: Lester Chadwick

Release Date: December 21, 2008 [EBook #27584]

Language: English

Character set encoding: ASCII

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Baseball Joe in
the Big League
OR
A Young Pitcher's Hardest Struggles

_By_ LESTER CHADWICK

AUTHOR OF
"BASEBALL JOE OF THE SILVER STARS,"
"BASEBALL JOE AT YALE,"
"BASEBALL JOE IN THE CENTRAL LEAGUE,"
"THE RIVAL PITCHERS,"
"THE EIGHT-OARED VICTORS," ETC.

_ILLUSTRATED_

NEW YORK
CUPPLES & LEON COMPANY

Copyright, 1915, by
CUPPLES & LEON COMPANY

Baseball Joe in the Big League
Printed in U. S. A.

CONTENTS

CHAPTER PAGE

I TWO LETTERS 1

II TO THE RESCUE 11

III AN UPSET 19

IV AN APPEAL 30

V THE THREAT 38

VI A WARNING 46

VII BASEBALL TALK 54

VIII THE QUARREL 61

IX JOE IS DRAFTED 70

X OFF TO ST. LOUIS 77

XI GOING DOWN SOUTH 87

XII THE QUARRELING MAN 97

XIII UNDER SUNNY SKIES 103

XIV HARD WORK 112

XV ANOTHER THREAT 122

XVI JOE'S TRIUMPH 129

XVII "PLAY BALL!" 140

XVIII HOT WORDS 148

XIX JOE GOES IN 153

XX STAGE FRIGHT 162