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The collected baseball stories
- Title
- The collected baseball stories / Charles Van Loan ; compiled and introduced by Trey Strecker.
- Author
- Van Loan, Charles E. (Charles Emmett), 1876-1919
- Publication
- Jefferson, N.C. : McFarland & Co., c2004.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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Details
- Additional Authors
- Strecker, Trey, 1966-
- Description
- vi, 465 p.; 26 cm.
- Summary
- "This volume brings together Charles Emmett Van Loan's baseball stories, including nine in The Big League (1909), nine in The Ten-Thousand-Dollar Arm (1912), nine more in The Lucky Seventh (1913), and ten in Score by Innings (1913). Also included are two previously uncollected stories, "Mathewson, Incog." and "The Indian Sign," and an appendix reprinting a 1910 essay by Van Loan encapsulating themes recurrent in his fiction."--BOOK JACKET.
- Uniform Title
- Short stories. Selections
- Alternative Title
- Short stories.
- Subject
- Contents
- The Big League (1909) -- 1. The crab -- 2. The low brow -- 3. The fresh guy -- 4. The quitter -- 5. The Bush League demon -- 6. The cast-off -- 7. The busher -- 8. A job for the pitcher -- 9. The golden ball of the Argonauts -- The Ten-Thousand-Dollar Arm (1912) -- 10. The ten-thousand-dollar arm -- 11. Sweeney to Sanguinetti to Schultz -- 12. Little sunset -- 13. The loosening up of Hogan -- 14. The Phantom League -- 15. The comeback -- 16. Behind the mask -- 17. McCluskey's prodigal -- 18. A rain check -- The Lucky Seventh (1913) -- 19. The Mexican marvel -- 20. The good old wagon -- 21. For revenue only -- 22. The bachelor Benedict -- 23. "Butterfly" Boggs : pitcher -- 24. Will a duck swim? -- 25. Crossed "signs" -- 26. Won off the diamond -- 27. The pitch-out -- Score by Innings (1919) -- 28. The National Commission decides -- 29. Piute vs. Piute -- 30. Chivalry in Carbon County -- 31. The squirrel -- 32. I O U -- 33. The bone doctor -- 34. His own stuff -- 35. Excess baggage -- 36. Nine assists and two errors -- 37. Mister Conley -- Previously Uncollected Stories -- 38. Mathewson, incog. -- 39. The indian sign -- App. "Making good in the big league" (1910).
- ISBN
- 0786418176 (softcover : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2004004054
- OCLC
- ocm54487516
- SCSB-4878093
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries