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قراءة كتاب Right off the Bat: Baseball Ballads
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RIGHT OFF
THE BAT
BASEBALL BALLADS
By
WILLIAM F. KIRK
ILLUSTRATIONS BY
H. B. MARTIN
G. W. DILLINGHAM COMPANY
PUBLISHERS NEW YORK
(These verses originally appeared in the New York Evening Journal, and are here
reprinted through the courtesy of the National News Association.)
COPYRIGHT, 1910-1911, BY
NATIONAL NEWS ASSOCIATION
COPYRIGHT, 1911, BY
G. W. DILLINGHAM COMPANY
Right Off The Bat
TO
JOHN J. McGRAW
THE SCHOOLMASTER
OF BASEBALL
CONTENTS
| PAGE | |
| John Bourbon, Pitcher | 7 |
| Sunday Baseball | 9 |
| The Big League | 11 |
| The Ballad of the Minor Leaguer | 13 |
| Ballade of a Substitute | 15 |
| Casey on a Bat | 17 |
| The Pitcher’s Soliloquy | 19 |
| Blessed Be Baseball | 21 |
| Raymond’s Ride | 23 |
| Four Conversations | 25 |
| “Inside” Baseball | 27 |
| The Difference | 29 |
| Cricket and Baseball | 31 |
| The League of Long Ago | 33 |
| The Longest Hit on Record | 35 |
| The Umpire’s Home | 37 |
| “Yellow” | 39 |
| The Umpire | 41 |
| “Choosing Sides” | 43 |
| Ode to a Georgia Gent | 45 |
| Life and Baseball | 47 |
| What Happened to Hilo | 49 |
| I Was with Clarke | 51 |
| “Home Folks” | 53 |
| The Outfielder’s Dream | 55 |
| The Law of Averages | 57 |
| A Converted Rooter | 59 |
| To the Lady Bugs | 61 |
| Polo in Arizona | 63 |
| The Laddies’ League | 65 |
| The $11,000 Beauty | 67 |
| The Lay of the New York Fan |