Right off the Bat: Baseball Ballads
RIGHT OFF THE BAT
BASEBALL BALLADS
By WILLIAM F. KIRK
ILLUSTRATIONS BY H. B. MARTIN
G. W. DILLINGHAM COMPANY PUBLISHERS NEW YORK
(These verses originally appeared in the New York Evening Journal, and are here reprinted through the courtesy of the National News Association.)
COPYRIGHT, 1910-1911, BY NATIONAL NEWS ASSOCIATION COPYRIGHT, 1911, BY G. W. DILLINGHAM COMPANY Right Off The Bat
TO JOHN J. McGRAW THE SCHOOLMASTER OF BASEBALL
Right Off the Bat
William Frederick Kirk
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CONTENTS
JOHN BOURBON, PITCHER
SUNDAY BASEBALL
THE BIG LEAGUE
THE BALLAD OF THE MINOR LEAGUER
BALLADE OF A SUBSTITUTE
CASEY ON A BAT
THE PITCHER’S SOLILOQUY
BLESSED BE BASEBALL
RAYMOND’S RIDE
FOUR CONVERSATIONS
“INSIDE” BASEBALL
THE DIFFERENCE
CRICKET AND BASEBALL
THE LEAGUE OF LONG AGO
THE LONGEST HIT ON RECORD
THE UMPIRE’S HOME
“YELLOW”
THE UMPIRE
“CHOOSING SIDES”
ODE TO A GEORGIA GENT
LIFE AND BASEBALL
WHAT HAPPENED TO HILO
I WAS WITH CLARKE
“HOME FOLKS”
THE OUTFIELDER’S DREAM
THE LAW OF AVERAGES
A CONVERTED ROOTER
TO THE LADY BUGS
POLO IN ARIZONA
THE LADDIES’ LEAGUE
THE $11,000 BEAUTY
THE LAY OF THE NEW YORK FAN
THE OLD ROOTER
“IF”
NEW BOOKS AND NEW EDITIONS
