The Baseball MEGAPACK ®: 24 Classic Baseball Stories by Zane Grey & Michael Avallone & Lester Chadwick & Octavus Roy Cohen & A. Lester Bender

Author:Zane Grey & Michael Avallone & Lester Chadwick & Octavus Roy Cohen & A. Lester Bender [Grey, Zane]
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Tags: sports, pulp fiction, catcher, pitcher, baseball
ISBN: 9781434446602
Publisher: Wildside Press LLC
Published: 2013-04-10T16:00:00+00:00

BASEBALL JOE AT YALE, by Lester Chadwick

or, Pitching for the College Championship

CHAPTER I

JUST IN TIME

“Joe Matson, I can’t understand why you don’t fairly jump at the chance!”

“Because I don’t want to go—that’s why.”

“But, man alive! Half the fellows in Riverside would stand on their heads to be in your shoes.”

“Perhaps, Tom. But, I tell you I don’t think I’m cut out for a college man, and I don’t want to go,” and Joe Matson looked frankly into the face of his chum, Tom Davis, as they strolled down the village street together that early September day.

“Don’t want to go to Yale!” murmured Tom, shaking his head as if unable to fathom the mystery. “Why I’d work my way through, if they’d let me, and here you’ve got everything comparatively easy, and yet you’re balking like a horse that hasn’t had his oats in a month. Whew! What’s up, Joe, old man?”

“Simply that I don’t believe I’m cut out for that sort of life. I don’t care for this college business, and there’s no use pretending that I do. I’m not built that way. My mind is on something else. Of course I know a college education is a great thing, and something that lots of fellows need. But for yours truly—not!”

“I only wish I had your chance,” said Tom, enviously.

“You’re welcome to it,” laughed Joe.

“No,” and the other spoke half sadly. “Dad doesn’t believe in a college career any more than you do. When I’m through at Excelsior Hall he’s going to take me into business with him. He talks of sending me abroad, to get a line on the foreign end of it.”

“Cracky!” exclaimed Joe. “That would suit me down to the ground—that is if I could go with a ball team.”

“So you haven’t gotten over your craze for baseball?” queried Tom.

“No, and I never shall. You know what I’ve always said—that I’d become a professional some day; and I will, too, and I’ll pitch in the world series if I can last long enough,” and Joe laughed.

“But look here!” exclaimed his chum, as they swung down a quiet street that led out into the country; “you can play baseball at Yale, you know.”

“Maybe—if they’ll let me. But you know how it is at those big universities. They are very exclusive—societies—elections—eating clubs—and all that sort of rot. A man has to be in with the bunch before he can get a show.”

“That’s all nonsense, and you know it!” snapped Tom. “At Yale, I warrant you, just as at every big college, a man has to stand on his own feet. Why, they’re always on the lookout for good fellows on the nine, crew or eleven, and, if you can make good, you’ll be pitching on the ’varsity before the Spring term opens.”

“Maybe,” assented Joe with rather a moody face. “Anyhow, as long as I’ve got to go to college I’m going to make a try for the nine. I think I can pitch a little—”

“A little!” cried Tom. “Say,

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