Baseball Joe at Yale

Lester Chadwick

"Baseball Joe" Matson's great ambition is to become a professional baseball pitcher. The Baseball Joe series follows his career as he seeks to attain his goal. In this volume, Joe follows the wishes of his parents and attends college, and seeks to join the Yale University varsity baseball nine. Much to his disappointment, he finds that he cannot immediately do so, due to a Yale rule barring Freshmen from placement on the varsity. We follow his college adventures through his first and second years, with emphasis on his trials in making the team in year two, including the attempts of a rival pitcher to keep him off the team.

Lester Chadwick is one of dozens of house pseudonyms created by the Stratemeyer Syndicate in the early to mid 1900's, to "author" children's series. Contract writers (whose identities were to remain unknown under tight secrecy) were hired to write the books in the series under the various names, usually multiple writers contributing volumes to a particular series. Howard R. Garis (1873-1962) is thought to have ghost-written most, if not all, of the 14-volume Baseball Joe series. - Summary by Donald Cummings

Genre(s): Children's Fiction, Sports Fiction

Language: English

Section Chapter Reader Time
Play 01 Just In Time Donald Cummings
00:17:35
Play 02 A Home Conference Donald Cummings
00:10:06
Play 03 One Last Game Donald Cummings
00:08:43
Play 04 A Sneering Laugh Donald Cummings
00:08:02
Play 05 Off For Yale Donald Cummings
00:13:36
Play 06 On the Campus Donald Cummings
00:08:37
Play 07 A New Chum Donald Cummings
00:13:23
Play 08 Ambitions Donald Cummings
00:08:23
Play 09 The Shampoo Donald Cummings
00:13:10
Play 10 A Wild Night Donald Cummings
00:11:37
Play 11 The Red Paint Donald Cummings
00:08:34
Play 12 Joe's Silence Donald Cummings
00:08:39
Play 13 Early Practice Donald Cummings
00:11:26
Play 14 The Surprise Donald Cummings
00:13:31
Play 15 His First Chance Donald Cummings
00:11:40
Play 16 Joe Makes Good Donald Cummings
00:11:43
Play 17 Another Step Donald Cummings
00:17:27
Play 18 Plotting Donald Cummings
00:06:33
Play 19 The Anonymous Letter Donald Cummings
00:07:00
Play 20 The Cornell Host Donald Cummings
00:08:54
Play 21 Eager Hearts Donald Cummings
00:09:04
Play 22 The Crimson Spot Donald Cummings
00:10:30
Play 23 Joe's Triumph Donald Cummings
00:08:23
Play 24 Hard Luck Donald Cummings
00:13:01
Play 25 At West Point Donald Cummings
00:07:51
Play 26 A Sore Arm Donald Cummings
00:08:28
Play 27 The Accusation Donald Cummings
00:08:29
Play 28 Vindication Donald Cummings
00:08:02
Play 29 Bucking the Tiger Donald Cummings
00:03:59
Play 30 The Championship Donald Cummings
00:12:58