Baseball Joe at Yale: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Baseball Joe at Yale, credited to Lester Chadwick, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

About the work

The LibriVox catalogue summary, preserved with the recording, reads:

LibriVox recording of Baseball Joe at Yale by Howard R. Garis. Read in English by Donald Cummings "Baseball Joe" Matson's great ambition is to become a professional baseball pitcher. The Baseball Joe series follows his career as he seeks to attain his goal. In this volume, Joe follows the wishes of his parents and attends college, and seeks to join the Yale University varsity baseball nine. Much to his disappointment, he finds that he cannot immediately do so, due to a Yale rule barring Freshmen from placement on the varsity. We follow his college adventures through his first and second years, with emphasis on his trials in making the team in year two, including the attempts of a rival pitcher to keep him off the team. Lester Chadwick is one of dozens of house pseudonyms created by the Stratemeyer Syndicate in the early to mid 1900's, to "author" children's series. Contract writers (whose identities were to remain unknown under tight secrecy) were hired to write the books in the series under the various names, usually multiple writers contributing volumes to a particular series. Howard R. Garis (1873-1962) is thought to have ghost-written most, if not all, of the 14-volume Baseball Joe series. - Summary by Donald Cummings

Recording facts

• Recording title: Baseball Joe at Yale
• Author credits: Lester Chadwick
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 30
• Listed recording duration: 5:09:24

Catalogue topics

• fiction
• college
• sports
• baseball
• juvenile
• baseball joe
• yale
• Stratemeyer Syndicate

Opening tracks: first 24 of 30

1. 01 - Just In Time — 17:35
2. 02 - A Home Conference — 10:06
3. 03 - One Last Game — 8:43
4. 04 - A Sneering Laugh — 8:02
5. 05 - Off For Yale — 13:36
6. 06 - On the Campus — 8:37
7. 07 - A New Chum — 13:23
8. 08 - Ambitions — 8:23
9. 09 - The Shampoo — 13:10
10. 10 - A Wild Night — 11:37
11. 11 - The Red Paint — 8:34
12. 12 - Joe's Silence — 8:39
13. 13 - Early Practice — 11:26
14. 14 - The Surprise — 13:31
15. 15 - His First Chance — 11:40
16. 16 - Joe Makes Good — 11:43
17. 17 - Another Step — 17:27
18. 18 - Plotting — 6:33
19. 19 - The Anonymous Letter — 7:00
20. 20 - The Cornell Host — 8:54
21. 21 - Eager Hearts — 9:04
22. 22 - The Crimson Spot — 10:30
23. 23 - Joe's Triumph — 8:23
24. 24 - Hard Luck — 13:01

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