Baseball Joe, Home Run King, or; The Greatest Pitcher and Batter on Record

by Lester Chadwick, Edward Stratemeyer

$65 · Offered by Between the Covers

Hardcover. Trifle soiled on the front cloth pictorial board else fine lacking the dustwrapper. Eighth book in the Baseball Joe series, the first major series devoted to a central character who was first, last and foremost, a baseball player, as well as the first series that treated major league players as something other than disreputable denizens of the lower class. This book reflects an interesting change in baseball, brought about by the emergence of Babe Ruth

• Binding: Hardcover

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