Baseball Joe in the Central League

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 fourth volume, Joe accepts a contract to play baseball professionally, and leaves Yale to play on the Pittston team for the Central League, a "bush league" in the professional baseball hierarchy. Joe's career is helped by "Pop" Dutton, a famous pitcher now down on his luck, and hindered by a rival pitcher on the team, while at home, Joe's father is blinded by a chemical accident, and requires an expensive operation, which, if successful, will regain his sight.

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 Danger Donald Cummings
00:15:17
Play 02 Off for the South Donald Cummings
00:12:46
Play 03 An Accusation Donald Cummings
00:08:38
Play 04 In Training Donald Cummings
00:13:08
Play 05 The Clash Donald Cummings
00:10:46
Play 06 A Straight Throw Donald Cummings
00:09:41
Play 07 The Girl Donald Cummings
00:11:41
Play 08 A Parting Donald Cummings
00:08:35
Play 09 The First League Game Donald Cummings
00:12:43
Play 10 Bitterness Donald Cummings
00:09:16
Play 11 Old Pop Consoles Donald Cummings
00:07:48
Play 12 The Queer Valise Donald Cummings
00:08:58
Play 13 Mabel Donald Cummings
00:10:14
Play 14 Bad News Donald Cummings
00:08:40
Play 15 Joe’s Pluck Donald Cummings
00:10:03
Play 16 A Slim Chance Donald Cummings
00:09:43
Play 17 Old Pop Again Donald Cummings
00:10:41
Play 18 In Despair Donald Cummings
00:11:03
Play 19 A New Hold Donald Cummings
00:10:24
Play 20 Joe’s Truimph Donald Cummings
00:09:31
Play 21 A Danger Signal Donald Cummings
00:10:06
Play 22 Victory Donald Cummings
00:10:42
Play 23 The Tramp Again Donald Cummings
00:07:58
Play 24 On the Track Donald Cummings
00:09:16
Play 25 Reggie’s Auto Donald Cummings
00:10:23
Play 26 The Tramp Rendezvous Donald Cummings
00:07:32
Play 27 The Slow Watch Donald Cummings
00:10:24
Play 28 The Race Donald Cummings
00:10:28
Play 29 A Diamond Battle Donald Cummings
00:11:25
Play 30 The Pennant Donald Cummings
00:12:54