Baseball Joe, Captain of the Team; or, Bitter Struggles on the Diamond

off to join Robbie, while Iredell, his face l

or, at least, had failed to take advantage of his opportunities. The game might have been won if he had been on the job. To be sure, the team had played like a lot of bushers, but

rry to Wheeler. "The old man has been g

ked Wheeler. "I'm sore yet from what he gave the bunch of us. Let's hurry

s of Baltimore, when that famous team had been burning up the League. Both of them knew baseball from beginning to end. Together they had worked out most of the insi

n, while Robbie smoothed them down. Each had his own special qualities and defects. But both were square and just and upright, and commanded the respect of the members of the team. Together they formed an ideal combination, whose worth was attested by the way they had led the Giants to victory. Into tha

es will come to the best of teams, and both McRae and Robbie, who were

ping. "Think of the way the Chicagos are giving us the merry ha ha! We just gave them that game to-day. Looked as though we had it sew

They couldn't get within a mile of him. And now as the capsheaf, he's probably out of the game for

r. "Any team will get a case of the rattles once in a while and play like a lot of dubs. What gets my goat

s happened. He's overlooked a lot of things since we started on this trip. Some of them have been trifling and have

and made them shaky. A captain is a good deal like a pitcher. If he's good, the team play behind him like thoroughbreds.

"We'll have to coach Iredell, wise him up on th

hook hi

hasn't got it, all the coaching in the world won't put it into him. It's a matter of brains, first, last and all the time. I've come to the

team is any better in that respect? Run over the list. Mylert, Burkett, Barrett, Jackwell, Curry, Bowen,

ked some one?" asked

ed at him i

es," he said. "And of course

the box?" a

ake them into consideration. But of course a pit

out saying," said McRae. "Why c

because it isn't done. I don't reme

de the old Orioles the class of the League and the wonder of the baseball world? By doing the things that aren't done-that no other team had thought of. They went along in

ys getting up something new. Matson, of course! Joe Matson, not only the greatest pitcher, but the brainiest man in all baseball! Matson, who thinks like lightning. Mats

ed his gra

eedn't go knocking me down with that

e matter to Joe yet?"

ith you and learned what you thought of it. And then, too, with that bruised leg and ankle of h

from. It's a pretty heavy responsibility to be placed on a man that's already carrying the tea

you know how he's wrapt up in the success of the team. He's never balked yet at anything I've asked him to do. He's playing baseball not only for money, but because he loves it. He talks baseball, thinks baseball, e

a point to be thought over, John. A captain's got to

nk of the batting strength that will add to the team. He's liable to break up any game with one of the same kind o

o win the pennant of the League this season, with the World Series thrown in for good measure. Who cares for to-day's