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Oct. 6, 2024

KEN'S DAY and BREAKING TRAINING by ZANE GREY

The final game is against Place, but this time it's s a home game. After the game, team gathers for one last meeting before everyone heads home for the summer.

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Sept. 29, 2024

A METTER OF PRINCIPLE and THE FIRST PLACE GAME THE YOUNG PITCHER by…

Ken Ward pitches against the best team in their conference- Place- and its a nail-biter all the way.

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Sept. 15, 2024

FRIENDSHIP and THE HEARN GAME ZANE GREY

Ken Ward, returning to the team's quarters after his fight with Graves, is confronted by Coach Worry, who asks him how his face got banged up.  Graves appears a few minutes later in worse shape and gets a tongue-lashing from Worry.

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Sept. 11, 2024

STATE UNIVERSITY GAME and KEN CLASHES WITH GRAVES

The team plays an overconfident State University team and teaches them some lessons. After the game, the coach warns the team of their only weakness- that of every man on the team adhering to the rules of curfew and rules regarding no smoking/no...

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Sept. 1, 2024

PRESIDENT HALSTEAD ON COLLEGE SPIRIT and NEW PLAYERS

Following an inspiring speech from President Halstead, some new plqayers appeared, and Ken finally got a chance to pitch.

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Aug. 18, 2024

ANNIHILATION AND EXAMINATIONS ZANE GREY THE YOUNG PITCHER

The big day arrives during spring training and the banished varsity players , sidelined this year due to their playing for other teams off season, arrive to wreak revenge upon Coach Arthur's new recruits with a crowd of thousands of students. ...

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Aug. 7, 2024

THE CAGE and OUT ON THE FIELD BY ZANE GREY

Wayne University Ken Ward has a long shot at playing varsity baseball ijn his first year due to the team's varsity players being grounded by playing ball outside the college off season.  When the tryouts come over a hundred players show up and...

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July 14, 2024

PRISONER OF THE SOPHS and CALL FOR CANDIDATES ZANE GREY THE YOUNG…

Ken Ward, after talking to his coach not long after the great potato fight, is talked into walking over to the Sophmore dormirories to aplogize to the varsity basball captain, Dale- but Dale has other plans, and Ken and the coach find themselves...

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July 10, 2024

THE VARSITY CAPTAIN and A GREAT ARM by ZANE GREY

The start of another great series of baseball short stories (the last one was "The Red-Headed Outfield)- this one being"The Young Pitcher'- the storyof a very young man who attends a large college as a freshman and soon learns what hazing is all...

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June 5, 2024

THE MANAGER OF MADDEN'S HILL by ZANE GREY

1001 Classic Short Stories & Tales Stories by Zane Grey

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April 10, 2024

THE MANAGER OF MADDEN'S HILL by ZANE GREY

1001 Classic Short Stories & Tales Stories by Zane Grey

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March 6, 2024

SUNDAY BALL by ZANE GREY

"Sunday Ball" by author Zane Grey gives us a rare look at the early days of baseball in middle America, what it meant to small towns, what people thought of it, and in this case, what moral dilemmas were caused when certain teams and towns started...

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Jan. 31, 2024

THE RUBE'S HONEYMOON by ZANE GREY

1001 Classic Short Stories & Tales Stories by Zane Grey

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Nov. 29, 2023

OLD WELL-WELL by ZANE GREY (BEST OF)

1001 Classic Short Stories & Tales Stories by Zane Grey

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July 5, 2023

THE RED-HEADED OUTFIELD by ZANE GREY STORIES BY ZANE GREY

1001 Classic Short Stories & Tales Stories by Zane Grey

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