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Title: The Young Pitcher

Author: Zane Grey

Release Date: September 11, 2006 [EBook #19246]

Language: English

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The Young Pitcher

By Zane Grey

1911

CONTENTS

I. The Varsity Captain

II. A Great Arm

III. Prisoner of the Sophs

IV. The Call for Candidates

V. The Cage

VI. Out on the Field

VII. Annihilation

VIII. Examinations

IX. President Halstead on College Spirit

X. New Players

XI. State University Game

XII. Ken Clashes with Graves

XIII. Friendship

XIV. The Herne Game

XV. A Matter of Principle

XVI. The First Place Game

XVII. Ken's Day

XVIII. Breaking Training

I

THE VARSITY CAPTAIN

Ken Ward had not been at the big university many days before he
realized the miserable lot of a freshman.

At first he was sorely puzzled. College was so different from what
he had expected. At the high school of his home town, which, being
the capital of the State, was no village, he had been somebody. Then
his summer in Arizona, with its wild adventures, had given him a
self-appreciation which made his present situation humiliating.

There were more than four thousand students at the university. Ken
felt himself the youngest, the smallest, the one of least consequence.
He was lost in a shuffle of superior youths. In the forestry department
he was a mere boy; and he soon realized that a freshman there was the
same as anywhere. The fact that he weighed nearly one hundred and sixty
pounds, and was no stripling, despite his youth, made not one whit of
difference.

Unfortunately, his first overture of what he considered good-fellowship
had been made to an upper-classman, and had been a grievous mistake.
Ken had not yet recovered from its reception. He grew careful after
that, then shy, and finally began to struggle against disappointment
and loneliness.

Outside of