THE NEW YORK BOOK COMPANY
PUBLISHERS, 147 FOURTH AVENUE, NEW YORK, N.Y.
Won In The Ninth
A STORY ABOUT BASEBALL
By "CHRISTY" MATHEWSON
(FAMOUS PITCHER Of THE NEW YORK NATIONAL LEAGUE BASEBALL TEAM)
(Copyrighted, 1910, by the R. J. Bodmer Co.)
The characters are college boys in everything but their ability to play baseball. Each represents one of the leading players who are now playing in the American and National Leagues with names slightly changed, but the reader will soon discover that he is reading the early exploits of one of his baseball favorites.
The whole range of interesting features about a ball team and the game itself is covered in successive chapters. One of them contains the secrets of what is known as "inside baseball" and "signal work" with illustrations showing how to do it.
Through the twenty chapters are interwoven many of the stories of actual plays, famous catches, thrilling episodes of games, tricks pulled off and some that did not work, which have come within the author's experience.
A good story of college life runs through the book. The hero gets into trouble and his friends get him out in the usual strenuous style of college life stories.
It is a live book about baseball, with live characters, and written by the one man who knows more about the men who are playing it to-day and the methods by which games are won than anyone else in the sport.