Baseball Joe in the Big League
Lester Chadwick
Read by Donald Cummings
"Baseball Joe" Matson's great ambition is to become a professional baseball pitcher. The Baseball Joe series follows his career as he seeks to attain his goal. In this fifth volume, Joe is drafted by the St. Louis Cardinals in the major leagues. A successful season of pitching is marred by mishaps beginning with a request for a loan by a has-been ball player and ending with the kidnapping of our hero.
Lester Chadwick is one of dozens of house pseudonyms created by the Stratemeyer Syndicate in the early to mid 1900's, to "author" children's series. Contract writers (whose identities were to remain unknown under tight secrecy) were hired to write the books in the series under the various names, usually multiple writers contributing volumes to a particular series. Howard R. Garis (1873-1962) is thought to have ghost-written most, if not all (sources vary), of the 14-volume Baseball Joe series. (Summary by Donald Cummings) (5 hr 11 min)
Chapters
Two Letters | 13:24 | Read by Donald Cummings |
To the Rescue | 9:43 | Read by Donald Cummings |
An Upset | 13:08 | Read by Donald Cummings |
An Appeal | 10:40 | Read by Donald Cummings |
The Threat | 10:32 | Read by Donald Cummings |
A Warning | 10:11 | Read by Donald Cummings |
Baseball Talk | 8:46 | Read by Donald Cummings |
The Quarrel | 11:58 | Read by Donald Cummings |
Joe is Drafted | 8:20 | Read by Donald Cummings |
Off to St. Louis | 12:25 | Read by Donald Cummings |
Going Down South | 12:17 | Read by Donald Cummings |
The Quarreling Man | 7:24 | Read by Donald Cummings |
Under Sunny Skies | 10:51 | Read by Donald Cummings |
Hard Work | 12:11 | Read by Donald Cummings |
Another Threat | 8:32 | Read by Donald Cummings |
Joe’s Triumph | 12:54 | Read by Donald Cummings |
''Play Ball!'' | 9:43 | Read by Donald Cummings |
Hot Words | 6:14 | Read by Donald Cummings |
Joe Goes In | 11:00 | Read by Donald Cummings |
Stage Fright | 15:55 | Read by Donald Cummings |
A Queer Message | 9:24 | Read by Donald Cummings |
In Danger | 10:45 | Read by Donald Cummings |
A Lame Arm | 12:14 | Read by Donald Cummings |
A Tight Game | 8:49 | Read by Donald Cummings |
In New York | 11:07 | Read by Donald Cummings |
Adrift | 7:14 | Read by Donald Cummings |
The Rescue | 8:01 | Read by Donald Cummings |
Moving Pictures | 6:32 | Read by Donald Cummings |
Shalleg’s Downfall | 7:36 | Read by Donald Cummings |
The Hardest Battle | 13:38 | Read by Donald Cummings |