Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 149
e ball over it counted only for twobases and not for a home run. So the Kings- shorter and shorter. Now he made a desperatecharge for second base and ran full tilt at Tug.Tug jumped aside, and in doing so fumbled theball Punk threw to him. After juggling it afatal second he flung it hard to Jumbo,… … ton captain sat down on second base andguyed Tug, while a small boy who hadwatched the game through a knothole, andwished himself small enough to crawl throughit, marched into the gate with the ball asproudly as if he were paying his admissionwith a nugget from the Klondike. The next man at the bat…
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