Project Gutenberg 2014-01-20 Public domain in the USA. 344 Chadwick, Lester 1873 1962 Baseball Joe, Captain of the Team; or, Bitter Struggles on the Diamond Produced by Donald Cummings and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net "Baseball Joe, Captain of the Team; or, Bitter Struggles on the Diamond" by Lester Chadwick is a sports novel written in the early 20th century. The story centers on Baseball Joe Matson, a talented pitcher for the Giants, who faces challenges both on the field and in his personal life. As the season progresses, Joe and his team find themselves struggling against a losing streak while dealing with the pressure of expectations, team dynamics, and personal relationships. The opening of the novel introduces Joe and his friend Jim Barclay as they grapple with their team's recent poor performance. Despite Joe's skills on the mound, the rest of the team seems to have fallen into a slump, with speculations arising about the team's chemistry and potential disruptions from new players. As the narrative unfolds, Joe remains determined to turn the team's fortunes around, but external pressures and personal concerns loom large, particularly the impact of his mother's health on his focus. (This is an automatically generated summary.) file:///public/vhost/g/gutenberg/html/files/44716/44716-h/images/cover.jpg Reading ease score: 82.1 (6th grade). Easy to read. en Young men -- Conduct of life -- Juvenile fiction Revenge -- Juvenile fiction Diligence -- Juvenile fiction Success -- Juvenile fiction Jealousy -- Juvenile fiction Baseball stories Baseball players -- Juvenile fiction New York Giants (Baseball team) -- Juvenile fiction PZ Text Category: Novels Category: American Literature Category: Sports/Hobbies 376194 2025-09-18T07:18:01.236729 text/html 360179 2024-10-24T00:53:14 text/html 354247 2025-09-18T07:18:06.907692 application/epub+zip 356469 2025-09-18T07:18:02.275748 application/epub+zip 198570 2025-09-18T07:18:01.756756 application/epub+zip 489514 2025-09-18T07:18:10.769156 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 445901 2025-09-18T07:18:06.362761 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 288516 2022-09-20T12:11:44.744988 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 335056 2025-09-18T07:18:00.318762 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 315144 2024-10-24T00:53:14 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 18139 2025-09-18T07:18:10.908157 application/rdf+xml 19687 2025-09-18T07:18:01.847728 image/jpeg 3390 2025-09-18T07:18:01.802741 image/jpeg 330850 2025-09-18T07:18:01.278772 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://book.klll.cc/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog More titles under Garis, Howard Roger