Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 53
for morning practice. Now, he said, I m going to order all ourfellows to go up to the bat, and I want you tothrow everything you ve got. He started off himself, and I was nervousenough, facing the manager of a Big-Leagueteam for my tryout. I shot over my fast onefirst, and I had a lot of speed in… … From photograph by Jaul Thompson.AT THE FINISH OF THE FADEAWAY. pride and joy which, as the newspapers said, hadbeen standing them on their heads in the MinorLeague. He stepped up into it, and drove theball over the head of the man playing center fieldand beyond the old ropes. So was an idol…
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