Lefty o' the bush

LEFTY O’ THE BUSH
BURT L. STANDISH
Author of “Lefty o’ the Big League,” “Lefty o’ the Blue Stockings,” “Lefty o’ the Training Camp.”
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GROSSET & DUNLAP PUBLISHERS NEW YORK
Copyright, 1914, by GROSSET & DUNLAP, Inc.
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LEFTY O’ THE BUSH
After running his eye over the Kingsbridge batting order, Mike Riley, manager of the Bancroft “Bullies,” rolled the black cigar well into the corner of his mouth, lifted himself ponderously to his feet, and walked across toward the bench of the home team.
Kingsbridge had taken the field for practice, the visitors having warmed up already. The Northern League, a genuine “bush” organization, had opened two days earlier in Bancroft and Fryeburg, but this was to be the first game of the season in Kingsbridge, a hustling, crude, though ambitious pulp-mill town.