Baseball Joe, Home Run King; or, The Greatest Pitcher and Batter on Record

He was still smarting from the sharp words of the manager and was anxious for a

ruck at it and missed. The next one was a straight ball about knee high. Willis

the stands. It looked like a sure home run, and it was clear that the Boston left fielder coul

!" called

, and Robbie rushed from the dugout to p

e declared, at the same time waving

omplied, and he took up his bat mumblin

" asked the u

The next suited him, and he sent a sizzling grounder between second and third, on which he might have made a

the pitcher. McRae hustled Denton out of the dugout with directions to sacrifice. The latter did his best, but Albaugh pounced on the ball and sh

decidedly gloomy. Hope revived, however, when Allen laced a single to left. It was a cl

me to the bat, while the grea

on," was shouted at him

he ball

r homer

ssport and send it

all. Albaugh looked at him with some apprehension. His respect for h

f the base and was trapped. His first impulse was to slide back to the bag, but he saw that he was too late for that and set out for third. The whole Boston infield joined in running h

and stepped on the mound. Baseball Joe

bullet. Joe timed it perfectly, and po

yelled the crowd,

ort, had managed to knock down the ball, after it had struck the ground and was speeding toward the fence. He straightened up and threw it in a line to third.

!" cried McRae, while Joe's comrades jigge

red Robson. "That ties the score anyway. Now if

ce in succession he sent it whizzing over the plate, and twice Mylert missed it by

arning cry from Menken and a roar from the crowd told Albaugh what was happening. He stopped his windup and threw to Menken, who was covering the rubber and yelling to him to throw. He thr

cried th

and the Giants ha

e a dash for the clubhouse. But before he had reached it, the crowd had closed in about him, and it was only by the assistance

g over the details of the game, while they took the showers and changed into their stre

whole team-gyp the other fellows out of their jobs? Such pitching, such batting-and then to cap it al

monstrative, was not

that up and there isn't a man in eith

ering with his pride in

st and won it afterward. Joe old fellow, you're in a class by you

n, "I got rather homesick on third, and

ns, and these perhaps were the greatest reward

ere ready to chalk that game up in advance as won. And on the other hand, the opposing team was almost ready to concede the game before it was played. He had speed, curves and everything. At the most critical stage of a game he never lost his head. There might be three men on bases and

nd could meet and talk with educated men on equal terms. He was upright in his principles, clean in his living, quiet, plain, and unassuming. He was hail fellow wel

m every chance to do so. He was wholly wrapped up in the success of his team, and was only too glad to see any one helping to gain that success. His treatment of Joe since the latt

take part in the World Series. His arm had become better, but he was still in no condition to pitch. So that it

he saw Hughson coming tow