TY  - BOOK
AU  - Chadwick,Lester
TI  - Baseball Joe at Yale; or, Pitching for the College Championship
AV  - PZ 
PY  - 2012///
CY  - Salt Lake City, UT
PB  - Project Gutenberg
KW  - Conduct of life -- Juvenile fiction
KW  - Young men -- Conduct of life -- Juvenile fiction
KW  - College students -- Juvenile fiction
KW  - Diligence -- Juvenile fiction
KW  - Success -- Juvenile fiction
KW  - Yale University -- Juvenile fiction
KW  - Baseball stories
KW  - Baseball players -- Juvenile fiction
KW  - Universities and colleges -- United States -- Juvenile fiction
N1  - Release date is 2012-06-29; Produced by Donald Cummings and the Online Distributed
Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net; Original publication data not identified
N2  - "Baseball Joe at Yale; or, Pitching for the College Championship" by Lester Chadwick is a fictional sports novel set in the early 20th century. The story centers around Joe Matson, an aspiring pitcher, as he navigates his transition from his hometown to the prestigious Yale University amid his passion for baseball. The narrative hints at Joe’s internal conflicts, particularly his reluctance to pursue a college education while yearning for a professional baseball career.  The opening of the novel introduces Joe Matson, who is ambivalent about attending Yale, feeling pressure from his family while harboring dreams of becoming a professional baseball player. A conversation with his friend Tom reveals Joe’s apprehensions, but he ultimately acknowledges that he has to comply with his mother’s wishes. As he prepares for college life, Joe encounters a man in distress whose carriage is damaged; he helps the man reach the train station just in time, foreshadowing Joe's own urgent ambitions. The chapter sets up key themes around personal ambition, societal expectations, and the youth's bittersweet journey towards maturity. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
UR  - https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/40105
ER  -