Pitcher Pollock
Unknown · 1914
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Description
Pitcher Pollock, published in 1914, is Christy Mathewson's baseball novel for boys. Mathewson, the great pitcher, also wrote First Base Faulkner and Catcher Craig. Charles Relyea drew the pictures. The hero, Tom Pollock, lives with his uncle Israel Bowles and must board in town to attend high school.
Tom hunts work and lands a job in a hardware store, sweeping and running errands. Skates, a pump and small debts fill his days while baseball waits in the wings. Soon he pitches in a real game, twirls to victory and gets knocked out of the box. The plot builds to the day the scrub pitcher earns the title name.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Unknown |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 1914 |
| COLLECTION | BOOKS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 354 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | Public Domain |
| RIGHTS | PUBLIC DOMAIN |
| SOURCE | Project Gutenberg |