Baseball Joe of the Silver Stars by Lester Chadwick. Enjoy some of the book as following :
Chapter I. A Hot Game
“Come on, Sam, get a move on. I thought you’d be out on the diamond long ago. What’s the matter?”
“Oh, I had to help dad put in some fence posts. I’m through now, Darrell, and I’ll be right with you.”
“Setting fence posts; eh?” and Darrell Blackney, the young manager of the Silver Star baseball nine of Riverside looked critically at Sam Morton, the team’s pitcher. “Well, Sam, I hope it didn’t make you stiff so that you can’t put some good balls over the plate. It’s going to be a hot game all right.”
“Oh, forget it!” cried Sam, as he finished buttoning his jacket while he joined his chum. “We’ll beat ’em to a frazzle all right. I’m going to pitch my head off to-day.”
“You may—if you don’t go to pieces the way you once did.”
“Say, what you talking about?” demanded Sam, with some warmth. “I can pitch all right, and don’t you forget it.” He seemed unnecessarily aroused.
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