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Lefty O' the Blue Stockings
Lefty Locke, a rising left-handed pitcher for the Blue Stockings, has a pennant race to win, a jealous veteran and a meddling new manager to deal with.
"Lefty o' the Blue Stockings" by Burt L. Standish is a baseball novel for young readers. It follows the pitcher Lefty Locke through a close pennant race, with trouble in the clubhouse and off the field.
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Lefty, having rounded first, pulled himself up abruptly, and trotted toward the clubhouse, the whoops and yells of many thousand delirious baseball “bugs” ringing in his ears. A wave of white-clad players surged after him, but Locke had almost reached the gate before the crest of it overtook him. An expression of happy contentment illumined most of the faces. “Laughing” Larry Dalton, the happy-go-lucky, brown-eyed second baseman, was grinning broadly as he flung one arm over the southpaw’s shoulder.
“Pretty punk to-day,” he chuckled. “Can’t hit, or put the ball over—or anything.”
“Perfectly rotten, he is,” chimed in Dirk Nelson, still breathing a bit unevenly from his rapid sprint to the plate. “Carson oughta tie the can on him for the rest of the season.”
Lefty chaffed back, and the whole crowd, laughing and joshing like a lot of kids, pushed into the clubhouse. As they stripped off their soggy uniforms,[46] and scrapped good-naturedly for the showers, they whistled and sang light-heartedly, living over the excitement of those last three innings.
Contents
- 01Chapter VI a Summons from the Manager
- 02Chapter VII a Girl and the Girl
- 03Chapter VIII at the Theater
- 04Chapter IX “in Bad”
- 05Chapter X the Grouch
- 06Chapter XI on the Raw Edge
- 07Chapter XII Uncertainty
- 08Chapter XIII Suspense
- 09Chapter XIV a Wild Heave
- 10Chapter XV Thrown Away
- 11Chapter XVI Hot Words
- 12Chapter XVII the Unapproachable Locke
- 13Chapter XVIII Under a Cloud
- 14Chapter XIX the Stranger
- 15Chapter XX the Retired Manager
- 16Chapter XXI Back in the Game
- 17Chapter XXII Building Up the Team
- 18Chapter XXIII the Man Who Denied Himself
- 19Chapter XXIV Perplexed
- 20Chapter XXV Stranger Gets a Job
- 21Chapter XXVI Mighty Queer
- 22Chapter XXVII Did He Remember?
- 23Chapter XXVIII a New Pitcher
- 24Chapter XXIX at the Field
- 25Chapter XXX Baseball Luck
- 26Chapter XXXI Pitchers’ Waterloo
- 27Chapter XXXII Filling the Breach
- 28Chapter XXXIII the Man on the Mound
- 29Chapter XXXIV the Other Pitcher
- 30Chapter XXXV the Steal Home
- 31Chapter XXXVI Stranger Is Annoyed
- 32Chapter XXXVII the Doctor’s Doubts
- 33Chapter XXXVIII First Position
- 34Chapter XXXIX a Troubled Mind
- 35Chapter XL the Reporter
- 36Chapter XLI the Man Who Knew
- 37Chapter XLII Failure
- 38Chapter XLIII the Come-Back
- 39Chapter XLIV Back to His Own
- 40Chapter XLV the Girls in the Box
- 41Chapter XLVI the Game of His Life
About this edition
- Author
- Burt L. Standish
- Language
- English
- Era
- Modern (c. 1800–1945)
- Reading level
- Introductory: no background needed
- Formats
- EPUB, PDF
- Length
- 188 pages
- This edition
- Modern Philosophers
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