Baseball Joe in the Central League: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Baseball Joe in the Central League, 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 in the Central League 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 fourth volume, Joe accepts a contract to play baseball professionally, and leaves Yale to play on the Pittston team for the Central League, a "bush league" in the professional baseball hierarchy. Joe's career is helped by "Pop" Dutton, a famous pitcher now down on his luck, and hindered by a rival pitcher on the team, while at home, Joe's father is blinded by a chemical accident, and requires an expensive operation, which, if successful, will regain his sight. 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 in the Central League
• Author credits: Lester Chadwick
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 30
• Listed recording duration: 5:10:44

Catalogue topics

• fiction
• sports
• baseball
• juvenile
• baseball joe
• pitcher
• Stratemeyer Syndicate

Opening tracks: first 24 of 30

1. 01 - Danger — 15:17
2. 02 - Off for the South — 12:46
3. 03 - An Accusation — 8:38
4. 04 - In Training — 13:08
5. 05 - The Clash — 10:46
6. 06 - A Straight Throw — 9:41
7. 07 - The Girl — 11:41
8. 08 - A Parting — 8:35
9. 09 - The First League Game — 12:43
10. 10 - Bitterness — 9:16
11. 11 - Old Pop Consoles — 7:48
12. 12 - The Queer Valise — 8:58
13. 13 - Mabel — 10:14
14. 14 - Bad News — 8:40
15. 15 - Joe’s Pluck — 10:03
16. 16 - A Slim Chance — 9:43
17. 17 - Old Pop Again — 10:41
18. 18 - In Despair — 11:03
19. 19 - A New Hold — 10:24
20. 20 - Joe’s Truimph — 9:31
21. 21 - A Danger Signal — 10:06
22. 22 - Victory — 10:42
23. 23 - The Tramp Again — 7:58
24. 24 - On the Track — 9:16

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