Baseball Ballads

by Grantland Rice

58 chapters2h 10mEnglish1910

About this book

Grantland Rice, was a sports journalist with several newspapers, although his Sportlights column, in the New York Tribune was what brought him fame, and through it he helped popularize golf in the US, and to help the cause of American Professional Football. This book of poetry, is a tribute to baseball, the sport he played at Vanderbilt. - Summary by cavaet

Chapters (58)

1Dedicated to the Fan

2Play Ball

3When the Bug is on the Bawl

139

4Casey's Revenge

295

5The Bug's View-Point

139

6The Courtship of a Son of Swat

142

7The Bush Leaguer's Dream

141

8Springtime in the History Room

9The Hold-Out League

106

10The Song of the Base Hit

11On the Road to Rooters' Row

178

12"'Til the Last Man Is Out"

135

13The Bushers

14The Climax of Fan Joy

119

15Songs of Swat -- "You Uster Bat .300"

118

16The Test

17The Laugh on Nero

137

18Curfewed

213

19The Fan and His Way

156

20Over the Plate

137

21Knocking Slang

102

22The Real Springtime

23The Raven Up-to-Date

135

24A Day in the Bleachers

141

25A Warning

105

26Out on the Lines

101

27On Memory's Wall

107

28The Game

100

29Mudville's Fate

190

30A Toast Worth the While

120

31The Champs of the Alley League

174

32The Man Who Played with Anson on the Old Chicago Team

317

33The Record

34"The Major Leaguer's Daugher; Or, The Turning of the Tide"

135

35Pen Snapshot of the British Fan

102

36On the Coaching Line

119

37The Goods

38The Winter League Wonder

126

39A Tip to the Fan Flock

104

40As the Game "Breaks"

117

41The Grand Old Winter League

42The Slide of Paul Revere

180

43The Annual Return

121

44In the Good Old Winter Time

123

45After the Game

46On Rooters' Row

145

47The Love Sonnets of a Son of Swat

344

48At the End of the Game

49The Mogul's Dream

131

50Hard-Luck Adam

111

51Denton (Cy) Young

231

52The Ump's Midwinter Dream

106

53A Real Job for Teddy

178

54The Shock

55When "Wifey" Reads Dope

150

56A Hard-Luck Yarn

151

57A Fan's Diary

214

58Game Called

113

Baseball Ballads

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