Baseball Ballads
Grantland Rice
58 chapters · 2 h 10 min · English
Read by EliseDee, Cavaet, Alan Mapstone, Larry Gieseke, Marcus Shera, BriaHolmes
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Grantland Rice, was a sports journalist with several newspapers, although his Sportlights column, in the New York Tribune was what brought him fame, and through it he helped popularize golf in the US, and to help the cause of American Professional Football. This book of poetry, is a tribute to baseball, the sport he played at Vanderbilt. - Summary by cavaet
Chapters
1 Dedicated to the Fan 1 min 2 Play Ball 1 min 3 When the Bug is on the Bawl 2 min 4 Casey's Revenge 5 min 5 The Bug's View-Point 2 min 6 The Courtship of a Son of Swat 2 min 7 The Bush Leaguer's Dream 2 min 8 Springtime in the History Room 1 min 9 The Hold-Out League 2 min 10 The Song of the Base Hit 2 min 11 On the Road to Rooters' Row 3 min 12 'Til the Last Man Is Out 2 min 13 The Bushers 1 min 14 The Climax of Fan Joy 2 min 15 Songs of Swat -- "You Uster Bat .300" 2 min 16 The Test 1 min 17 The Laugh on Nero 2 min 18 Curfewed 4 min 19 The Fan and His Way 3 min 20 Over the Plate 2 min 21 Knocking Slang 2 min 22 The Real Springtime 2 min 23 The Raven Up-to-Date 2 min 24 A Day in the Bleachers 2 min 25 A Warning 2 min 26 Out on the Lines 2 min 27 On Memory's Wall 2 min 28 The Game 2 min 29 Mudville's Fate 3 min 30 A Toast Worth the While 2 min 31 The Champs of the Alley League 3 min 32 The Man Who Played with Anson on the Old Chicago Team 5 min 33 The Record 1 min 34 The Major Leaguer's Daugher; Or, The Turning of the Tide 2 min 35 Pen Snapshot of the British Fan 2 min 36 On the Coaching Line 2 min 37 The Goods 1 min 38 The Winter League Wonder 2 min 39 A Tip to the Fan Flock 2 min 40 As the Game "Breaks" 2 min 41 The Grand Old Winter League 2 min 42 The Slide of Paul Revere 3 min 43 The Annual Return 2 min 44 In the Good Old Winter Time 2 min 45 After the Game 2 min 46 On Rooters' Row 2 min 47 The Love Sonnets of a Son of Swat 6 min 48 At the End of the Game 1 min 49 The Mogul's Dream 2 min 50 Hard-Luck Adam 2 min 51 Denton (Cy) Young 4 min 52 The Ump's Midwinter Dream 2 min 53 A Real Job for Teddy 3 min 54 The Shock 1 min 55 When "Wifey" Reads Dope 2 min 56 A Hard-Luck Yarn 3 min 57 A Fan's Diary 4 min 58 Game Called 2 min
