Hopper's 1914 baseball classic tells the riches to rags to riches story of Tom Hussey, a pitcher for the New York Giants. Hopper's lively narrative takes us back to the days when major league ball clubs played in grand ballparks like the Giants' legendary Polo Grounds.
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Hopper's 1914 baseball classic tells the riches to rags to riches story of Tom Hussey, a pitcher for the New York Giants. Hopper's lively narrative takes us back to the days when major league ball clubs played in grand ballparks like the Giants' legendary Polo Grounds.
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Seller's Description:
Very Good in None jacket. Shelfwear/edgewear on covers, spine and outer edges of pages; sticker on front cover; spine sunned; laminate begining to crease on front cover.; 6.9 X 5.0 X 0.3 inches; 96 pages.
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Very Good. First edition (possibly second printing, with A-O code indicating February 1914 and publication date listed as January 1914). Red cloth with applied illustration. Frontispiece and three additional photographic illustrations. Small tear on front fly, long tear on p.21 but with no loss, a couple of small stains in the text, else an attractive, very good copy of this young adult novel, purportedly based on the career of Ed Walsh. The novel stars an over-the-hill alcoholic pitcher who salvages his career by developing the spitball. The author, a Carmel, California native, was friends with Jack London, George Sterling, and others of their circle. *Grobani* 12-37a; *McCue* pp.54-55.
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Seller's Description:
Fine in Very Good jacket. Book First edition, printing A-O, Harper 1914. Fine hardcover in a very good Brodart protected dust jacket. Beautiful clean copy, square and firm binding. Dj is complete, with a line of soiling to top of rear panel.
