"This is an exciting tale and one that will be long remembered for analysis of a sportsman who learns through adversity to adjust himself to his team and to his world."--Saturday Review.
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John Tunis vividly imagines the drama of Operation Dynamo, the evacuation of Allied forces from Dunkerque Sergeant Edward Williams of the Second Battalion was among the first British troops to land in France, just across the English Channel from his family in Dover, after the declaration of war i...
LOUIS UNDER THE Missouri sun, and no fun either. Red Allen was at bat, and from the bench came Bob’s staccato cry, “Shake it up there, Red; wake up those bats, big boy.” After waiting for three balls and fouling half a dozen pitches, Allen popped up. It was a high fly to short, an easy out. But t...
Still they stood clapping, showing their affection. Finally they stopped and sat down. He bowed quickly and resumed his seat. Say, that was something! That was a tribute to a grand guy. That would show MacManus what the fans in Brooklyn thought of Dave Leonard. That was great, that was wonderful,...
The room was hot even at eight-thirty in the morning, betokening another steaming afternoon at Forbes Field. In the other bed Bob snorted and turned over. That boy, he can sleep all day and all night. Give him a chance and he’d just never wake up at all. It’s different when you’re running the tea...
The line seemed never to move, and Roy thought how glad he would be when this standing in line was finished and done with. Yet move it did, inch by inch, slowly, steadily, always under the glare of those powerful lights from overhead. Although it took several hours, eventually he reached a group ...
He was the only player on the field you looked at, the only player you saw. Feeling the tightness of the moment, the Academy stands rose together. Say, maybe this is it. Maybe this is the one we’ve been waiting for all afternoon. We can’t let those meatballs hold us to a scoreless tie. That’s ter...
After three days’ rest, all signs of the colic vanished and Quicksilver was his perky self again. Nevertheless, the doctor checked him each morning. In a week the horse began to take normal exercise with the rest of the string. Everyone from Chester Robinson on down liked Quicksilver. He gave no ...
With Dave gone there was no one to turn to for advice, no one who could help when he had new batters to face, nobody to whose room he could go in the evening when he felt on the spot as his winning record grew each time he took the box. And with his record, the strain. Because now everyone knew a...