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Our Base Ball Club and How It Won the Championship: Enriched edition. A Tale of Triumph: A Vintage Baseball Journey
'Our Base Ball Club and How It Won the Championship' by Noah Brooks is a charming novel that follows the story of Alice Howell and her beloved baseball team, the Catalpa Nine, as they fight for the championship against their rivals, the Jonesville Nine. In a town divided by class and social status, the Catalpas must band together to overcome the well-trained and rough Jonesvillians. Will they be able to win the championship and bring pride to their town?
126 pages, Kindle Edition
Published December 3, 2019
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Noah Brooks
88 booksOn the editorial staff of the New York Times and New York Tribune.
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June 15, 2022
The story concerns a small town in Illinois organizing a base ball club to challenge for the championship. Somehow they manage to win it after playing fewer than two dozen games. The final third of the book is devoted to play-by-play accounts of the championship series. Any drama these games might have had is sapped away by the chapter headings and the title of the book, which give away the ending. A few events occur outside the "Diamond Field," but they have no real import nor are they ever resolved. The characters exist solely to move the story along.
Recommended for those interested in 19th-century base ball who are curious about the way the game was played at the time.
Recommended for those interested in 19th-century base ball who are curious about the way the game was played at the time.
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