The Shortstop
New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1937. Reissue. Hard Cover. Good / Good. Item #2351497
Reissue. Jacket edges rubbed with minor loss from corners, boards a bit rubbed, pages heavily toned.
310 pp. A sports novel by the author best known for his westerns. Hoping to make enough money to start his own business, seventeen-year-old Chase Alloway quit his factory job to become a baseball player. Every town in Ohio had a baseball club, and Chase dragged himself from place to place, drifting until his money was exhausted and his clothes was dirty and ragged. He was just at the point when he was ready to go back and beg to be rehired at his lousy factory job when the tables turned for Chase Alloway in this look at early baseball and one boy's love of The Game.
Price: $15.00