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Follow the Ball

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By Ralph Henry Barbour
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The narrative follows a student athlete and his teammates at a preparatory school through a baseball season and beyond, tracing interpersonal tensions, locker-room rivalries, strategic plays, training-camp episodes, and off-field incidents that strain loyalties and prompt growth. Episodic chapters blend close-up game action with quieter scenes of friendship, sacrifice, and investigation, introducing suspenseful moments and reconciliations that reshape team dynamics. The story builds to a climactic contest and a subsequent turning point that alters fortunes and responsibilities, emphasizing themes of teamwork, sportsmanship, and personal maturity.

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Title: Follow the Ball

Author: Ralph Henry Barbour

Release date: October 21, 2019 [eBook #60540]
Most recently updated: October 17, 2024

Language: English

Credits: Produced by Donald Cummings and the Online Distributed
Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net

*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK FOLLOW THE BALL ***

FOLLOW THE BALL

By RALPH HENRY BARBOUR

Yardley Hall Series

  • FOURTH DOWN
  • FORWARD PASS
  • DOUBLE PLAY
  • WINNING HIS Y
  • GUARDING THE GOAL
  • FOR YARDLEY
  • AROUND THE END
  • CHANGE SIGNALS

Purple Pennant Series

  • THE LUCKY SEVENTH
  • THE SECRET PLAY
  • THE PURPLE PENNANT

Hilton Series

  • THE HALF-BACK
  • FOR THE HONOR OF THE SCHOOL
  • CAPTAIN OF THE CREW

Erskine Series

  • BEHIND THE LINE
  • WEATHERBY’S INNING
  • ON YOUR MARK

The “Big Four” Series

  • FOUR IN CAMP
  • FOUR AFOOT
  • FOUR AFLOAT

The Grafton Series

  • RIVALS FOR THE TEAM
  • HITTING THE LINE
  • WINNING HIS GAME

North Bank Series

  • THREE BASE BENSON
  • KICK FORMATION
  • COXSWAIN OF THE EIGHT

Books Not In Series

  • THE LOST DIRIGIBLE
  • FOR THE FREEDOM OF THE SEAS
  • KEEPING HIS COURSE
  • THE BROTHER OF A HERO
  • FINKLER’S FIELD
  • DANFORTH PLAYS THE GAME
  • THE ARRIVAL OF JIMPSON
  • UNDER THE YANKEE ENSIGN
  • BENTON’S VENTURE
  • THE JUNIOR TROPHY
  • THE NEW BOY AT HILLTOP
  • THE SPIRIT OF THE SCHOOL
  • THE PLAY THAT WON
  • OVER TWO SEAS (With H. P. HOLT)
  • FOR THE GOOD OF THE TEAM
  • INFIELD RIVALS

D. APPLETON AND COMPANY, Publishers, New York


FOLLOW THE BALL

BY

RALPH HENRY BARBOUR

AUTHOR OF “INFIELD RIVALS,” “FOR THE GOOD OF THE TEAM,”
“COXSWAIN OF THE EIGHT,” ETC.

D. APPLETON AND COMPANY
NEW YORK :: 1924 :: LONDON

COPYRIGHT, 1924, BY
D. APPLETON AND COMPANY

Copyright, 1920, 1921, 1922, 1923, by The Sprague Publishing Company
Copyright, 1920, 1922, 1923, by The Century Company

PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

CONTENTS

CHAPTER PAGE
I. For the Team 1
II. A Sacrifice for Kenton 14
III. Friends at Outs 23
IV. Ghosts 37
V. The Vigilantes 48
VI. Joe Finds a Clue 59
VII. The Lone Chase 70
VIII. Joe Resigns 80
IX. Gus Billings Narrates 93
X. Gus Billings Concludes 104
XI. Camp Resthere 116
XII. Uninvited Guests 127
XIII. Down the Brook 139
XIV. Alonzo Jones Speaks 149
XV. Alonzo Goes On 163
XVI. Ginger Burke 176
XVII. One All 187
XVIII. The Deciding Game 199
XIX. Ginger Signs Up Again 212
XX. Called to the Colors 223
XXI. Joe Follows the Ball 237