Excerpt from A Luxemburg Idyll in Early Iowa If we turn to the native male youth of the valley we find the serpent that crept into their Eden carried a base ball and bat. A story in point tells of the introduction of base ball at St. Donatus. The homebred youth had plenty of muscle for batting and making the bases; for long they would persist in running on a foul. The hard thing for them was the change of gear to avoid waste effort and husband every breath of efficiency. It historians find it difficult to say just when ...
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Excerpt from A Luxemburg Idyll in Early Iowa If we turn to the native male youth of the valley we find the serpent that crept into their Eden carried a base ball and bat. A story in point tells of the introduction of base ball at St. Donatus. The homebred youth had plenty of muscle for batting and making the bases; for long they would persist in running on a foul. The hard thing for them was the change of gear to avoid waste effort and husband every breath of efficiency. It historians find it difficult to say just when decline sets in with a nation, still more so when it has progressed so far that recovery is impossible, it is not so with Tete de Mort. Considering not the religious spirit, still undiminished, only the romantic Luxemburg ideals transplanted to early Iowa, we may suspect the crisis was reached when baseball entered the bucolic valley. When the ingenuous youth of Tete de Mort fell to the American game and that spirit was made ruler over sport as over business, monarch of efficiency, punch, teamwork, drives and every phase of bounce, Calypso and her nymphs must have ed the valley as the beloved of the Lord ed the city on the plain. Any way the fact must be faced of the Tete de Mort boys mastering base ball after a time, for the later genera tion is as capable as any on fouls and knows a deal about building character into salesmanship and harnessing many kinds of energy close to production. American style. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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