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Base-ball Ballads

Base-ball Ballads

by Grantland Rice

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Author
Rice, Grantland, 1880-1954
Credits
Chuck Greif, deaurider and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)
Language
English
LoC Class
PS: Language and Literatures: American and Canadian literature
Subject
Baseball -- Poetry
Category
Text
Project Gutenberg
eBook-No. 65065
Release Date
April 12, 2021
Copyright
Public domain in the USA.

Contents

  1. 1.BASE-BALL BALLADS
  2. 2.DEDICATED TO THE FAN
  3. 3.CONTENTS.
  4. 4.PLAY BALL.
  5. 5.WHEN THE BUG IS ON THE BAWL.
  6. 6.CASEY’S REVENGE.
  7. 7.THE BUG’S VIEW-POINT.
  8. 8.THE COURTSHIP OF A SON OF SWAT.
  9. 9.THE BUSH LEAGUER’S DREAM. (From our “Songs of the Spring Recruit.”) — I. — Chorus. — II. — Chorus.
  10. 10.SPRINGTIME IN THE HISTORY ROOM.
  11. 11.THE HOLD-OUT LEAGUE.
  12. 12.THE SONG OF THE BASE HIT.
  13. 13.ON THE ROAD TO ROOTERS’ ROW. (Letting Mr. Kipling in, of course, on a bit of the graft.) — I. — II. — III. — IV.
  14. 14.“TILL THE LAST MAN IS OUT.” — L’Envoi.
  15. 15.THE BUSHERS.
  16. 16.THE CLIMAX OF FAN JOY.
  17. 17.SONGS OF SWAT—“YOU USTER BAT .300.” — Chorus. — Chorus.
  18. 18.THE TEST.
  19. 19.THE LAUGH ON NERO.
  20. 20.CURFEWED.
  21. 21.THE FAN AND HIS WAY.
  22. 22.OVER THE PLATE.
  23. 23.KNOCKING SLANG.
  24. 24.THE REAL SPRINGTIME.
  25. 25.THE RAVEN UP-TO-DATE.
  26. 26.A DAY IN THE BLEACHERS. — I. — II. — III.
  27. 27.A WARNING.
  28. 28.OUT ON THE LINES.
  29. 29.ON MEMORY’S WALL.
  30. 30.THE GAME.
  31. 31.MUDVILLE’S FATE.
  32. 32.A TOAST WORTH WHILE.
  33. 33.THE CHAMPS OF THE ALLEY LEAGUE.
  34. 34.THE MAN WHO PLAYED WITH ANSON ON THE OLD CHICAGO TEAM.
  35. 35.THE RECORD.
  36. 36.“THE MAJOR LEAGUER’S DAUGHTER;” OR, “THE TURNING OF THE TIDE.” — Chorus. — Chorus.
  37. 37.PEN SNAPSHOT OF THE BRITISH FAN.
  38. 38.ON THE COACHING LINE.
  39. 39.THE GOODS.
  40. 40.THE WINTER LEAGUE WONDER.
  41. 41.A TIP TO THE FAN FLOCK.
  42. 42.AS THE GAME “BREAKS.”
  43. 43.THE GRAND OLD WINTER LEAGUE.
  44. 44.THE SLIDE OF PAUL REVERE.
  45. 45.THE ANNUAL RETURN.
  46. 46.IN THE GOOD OLD WINTER TIME. (Old, but to the point. As sung by the fan chorus around many circuits.) — I. — Chorus. — II. — Chorus.
  47. 47.AFTER THE GAME.
  48. 48.ON ROOTERS’ ROW. — I. — II.
  49. 49.THE LOVE SONNETS OF A SON OF SWAT. — I. — II. — III. — IV. — V. — VI. — VII.
  50. 50.AT THE END OF THE GAME.
  51. 51.THE MOGUL’S DREAM. (With apologies to “The Actor’s Dream.”) — L’Envoi.
  52. 52.HARD-LUCK ADAM.
  53. 53.DENTON (CY) YOUNG.
  54. 54.THE UMP’S MIDWINTER DREAM.
  55. 55.A REAL JOB FOR TEDDY.
  56. 56.THE SHOCK.
  57. 57.WHEN “WIFEY” READS DOPE.
  58. 58.A HARD-LUCK YARN.
  59. 59.A FAN’S DIARY. — ( March Fifteenth. ) — ( April Fifteenth. ) — ( May Fifteenth. ) — ( June Fifteenth. ) — ( July First. ) — ( July Fifteenth. ) — ( October First. )
  60. 60.GAME CALLED.

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