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Title: Double Play: A Story of School and Baseball

Author: Ralph Henry Barbour

Illustrator: Walter Biggs

Release date: March 16, 2018 [eBook #56752]

Language: English

Credits: Produced by Donald Cummings and the Online Distributed
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DOUBLE PLAY


BY RALPH HENRY BARBOUR.

Each, Illustrated, 12mo, Cloth, $1.50.


Hilton School Series.

Erskine Series.

“Big Four” Series.



D. APPLETON AND COMPANY, NEW YORK.




DOUBLE PLAY

A STORY OF SCHOOL AND BASEBALL

By

RALPH HENRY BARBOUR

AUTHOR OF “THE SPIRIT OF THE SCHOOL,” “THE
HALF-BACK,” “WEATHERBY’S INNING,”
“FORWARD PASS,” ETC., ETC.

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NEW YORK AND LONDON
D. APPLETON AND COMPANY
1909


Copyright, 1909, by

D. APPLETON AND COMPANY

Published September, 1909


TO

D. M.

FROM

O. L. R.


CONTENTS

CHAPTER. PAGE.
I. Back to School 1
II. In 7 Dudley 10
III. Dan Begins Right 20
IV. Gerald in Grief 29
V. Alf Takes a Pupil 45
VI. A Visit to New York 55
VII. The Snow Battle 65
VIII. Gerald Revolts 78
IX. Gerald Leaves School 88
X. A Visit from Kilts 103
XI. Hockey at Broadwood 120
XII. Yardley Gets Revenge 136
XIII. Work in the Cage 145
XIV. Politics and Chess 159
XV. The Lists Are Posted 176
XVI. Gerald Makes a Bargain 185
XVII. The Class Games 201
XVIII. Fun at the Circus 217
XIX. What Pell School Did 230
XX. The Slump 241
XXI. Drowned! 250
XXII. The Rescue 260
XXIII. The Last Practice 271
XXIV. On Yardley Hill 285
XXV. Three to Three 291
XXVI. Double Play 304

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

    FACING
PAGE
“The next moment saw a lad ... leap high into the air in the path of the speeding ball” Frontispiece  
“It was a fine ‘rough house’ while it lasted”   40
“‘He’s going back with me on the five o’clock train’”   98
“‘Have you fellows heard the news?’ he cried”   258

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