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Ball Player's Career

Name: Ball Player's Career
Author: Adrian C. Anson

Adrian C. Anson

Read by Cavaet · LibriVox · public domain · Archive.org recording · License

Chapters

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Chapter One: My Birthplace and Ancestry (9:45)
Chapter Two: Days at Marshalltown (12:06)
Chapter Three: Some Facts About the National Game (13:38)
Chapter Four: Further Facts and Figures (14:56)
Chapter Five: The Game at Marshalltown (13:35)
Chapter Six: My Experience at Rockford (13:33)
Chapter Seven: With the Atheltics of Philadelphia (13:16)
Chapter Eight: Some Minor Diversions (10:47)
Chapter Nine: We Ball Players Go Abroad (14:09)
Chapter Ten: The Argonauts of 1874 (11:49)
Chapter Eleven: I Win One Prize and Others Follow (10:03)
Chapter Twelve: With the National League (12:17)
Chapter Thirteen: From Fourth Place to the Championship (14:43)
Chapter Fourteen: The Champions of the Early Eighties (13:43)
Chapter Fifteen: We Fall Down and Rise Again (16:27)
Chapter Sixteen: Ball-Players Each and Every One (13:05)
Chapter Seventeen: While Fortune Frowns and Smiles (13:10)
Chapter Eighteen: From Chicago to Denver (15:13)
Chapter Nineteen: From Denver to San Francisco (13:09)
Chapter Twenty: Two Weeks in California (16:06)
Chapter Twenty-One: We Visit the Hawaiian Islands (23:24)
Chapter Twenty-Two: From Honolulu to Australia (15:15)
Chapter Twenty-Three: With Our Friends in the Antipodes (15:56)
Chapter Twenty-Four: Ball Playing and Sight Seeing in Australia (15:44)
Chapter Twenty-Five: Afloat on the Indian Sea (14:48)
Chapter Twenty-Six: From Ceylon to Egypt (16:02)
Chapter Twenty-Seven: In the Shadow of the Pyramids (12:10)
Chapter Twenty-Eight: The Blue Skies of Italy (15:14)
Chapter Twenty-Nine: Our Visit to La Belle France (14:40)
Chapter Thirty: Through England, Scotland and Ireland (20:29)
Chapter Thirty-One: "Home, Sweet Home" (22:16)
Chapter Thirty-Two: The Revolt of the Brotherhood (15:39)
Chapter Thirty-Three: My Last Years on the Ball Field (17:13)
Chapter Thirty-Four: If This Be Treason, Make the Most of It (14:28)
Chapter Thirty-Five: How My Winters Were Spent (9:20)
Chapter Thirty-Six: With the Knights of the Cue (14:09)
Chapter Thirty-Seven: Not Dead, But Sleeping (11:17)
Chapter Thirty-Eight: L'Envoi (24:27)