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It would take a whole book properly to go into the details of baseball, but no instructions can take the place of practice, and it will be better if this can be done under the direction of an expert. Here are a few baseball rules that it will be well to remember: 1. The infield must be thirty yards square. The bases must be four in number.
In professional baseball the Negro was proscribed, though occasionally a member of the race played on teams of the second group. Of semi-professional teams the American Giants and the Leland Giants of Chicago, and the Lincoln Giants of New York, were popular favorites, and frequently numbered on their rolls players of the first order of ability.
Chief distinguishing marks are the green eyes, a broken nose caused by being struck in the face by a baseball and a patch of snow-white hair the size of a thumb ball, two inches above the left ear. Accustomed to having his own way, not at all considerate of others. Yet not a bad fellow as men go merely a man spoiled by too much mothering in boyhood and by the fact that he never had to work.
Under Jane's direction and care they made their visit to the car, but on their return no Larry was with them. He would come after the picnic and baseball game tomorrow, perhaps, but not to-night. His mother was plainly disappointed, and indeed a little hurt. She could not understand her son. It was not his clothes after all as she had thought.
And there are half a dozen cracks in college to fight for these two positions fellows I played against on the summer nines last year. Worry's idea is ridiculous." This bit of baseball talk showed Ken the obstacles in the way of a freshman making the varsity team. What a small chance there would be for him!
Tiger!" called Mappo, all at once. With all his might he threw the empty cocoanut shell right at the tiger's head. Monkeys are very good throwers. They are almost as good as are baseball boys at that sort of thing. "Bang!" went the cocoanut on the tiger's head. It cracked open I mean the cocoanut cracked open where Mappo had stuck it together. It made quite a noise.
I asked her to quit the stage. I told her I could give her everything she wanted. "'No, she told me. 'Show business is show business. "'Well, I said, 'baseball is mine. So we parted." "You mentioned that you were with the Giants for seven years, and then the Dodgers for five, did you not? How did it feel when you were traded from the Giants to the Dodgers?" asked Elephant.
Our moment came in the German trenches before La Bassée, when, with the English so near that you could have thrown a baseball into their trenches, both sides began to toss dynamite bombs at each other. We had come across to Cologne on the regular night express, shifted to a military train, and so on through Aix, Louvain, Brussels, and by the next morning's train down to Lille.
Ted had few companions who followed the bent of thought that he did. The fellows he knew either at school or in the town were ready enough to play football and baseball but almost none of them, for example, wanted to sacrifice a pleasant Saturday to constructing a wireless outfit.
"Then we surely do need you both, for we've seen Holmesy toy with the ball, and we know where he'd rate. Do you think you play baseball at the same gait that you do football, old ramrod?" "I think it's possible that I do," Dick half admitted slowly. "Always modest, aren't you?" laughed "Durry" good humoredly.
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