Project Gutenberg 2017-10-09 Public domain in the USA. 176 Garis, Howard Roger 1873 1962 Davidson, Marion Garis, Howard R. Those Smith Boys on the Diamond; or, Nip and Tuck for Victory Produced by David Edwards, David E. Brown and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This book was produced from scanned images of public domain material from the Google Books project.) "Those Smith Boys on the Diamond; or, Nip and Tuck for Victory" by Howard Roger Garis is a novel written in the early 20th century. The story revolves around the Smith brothers—John, Bill, and Pete—and their escapades as they play for their local baseball team, the Freeport nine, in a tightly contested league with their rivals from Vandalia. The narrative explores themes of teamwork, rivalry, and youthful mischief in the context of small-town life. The opening of the novel presents an intense and close baseball game where the Freeport team is battling for victory against Vandalia. It introduces the main characters, particularly focusing on Bill Smith, the team's pitcher, and his brothers as they navigate the pressures of the game and their teammates' antics. The scene is lively, filled with play-by-play descriptions of the action unfolding on the field, as well as demonstrating the camaraderie and competitive spirit among the boys. The excitement of baseball is met with hints of their mischievous nature as they consider plans for post-game shenanigans, setting the stage for their adventurous spirit throughout the story. (This is an automatically generated summary.) Reading ease score: 83.2 (6th grade). Easy to read. en Baseball stories PZ Text Category: Children & Young Adult Reading Category: Adventure Category: Novels Category: American Literature Category: Sports/Hobbies 444691 2025-09-22T08:40:10.350679 text/html 457319 2024-10-23T02:44:24 text/html 318917 2025-09-22T08:40:17.012599 application/epub+zip 317316 2025-09-22T08:40:11.312638 application/epub+zip 243110 2025-09-22T08:40:10.801646 application/epub+zip 427880 2025-09-22T08:40:21.300657 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 384076 2025-09-22T08:40:16.475620 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 314307 2022-08-25T06:57:38.173184 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 399503 2025-09-22T08:40:09.008660 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 379394 2024-10-23T02:44:23 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 17560 2025-09-22T08:40:21.435561 application/rdf+xml 9132 2025-09-22T08:40:10.904617 image/jpeg 1770 2025-09-22T08:40:10.850644 image/jpeg 305628 2025-09-22T08:40:10.389678 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 Chadwick, Lester en.wikipedia More titles under Sperry, Raymond