[JOE CAUGHT IT SQUARE ON THE END OF THE BAT.]
[HE SENT THE ICY SNOWBALL WHIZZING AS THOUGH FROM A CATAPULT.]
[“JOE!” SHE EXCLAIMED DELIGHTEDLY. “HOW GLAD I AM TO SEE YOU!”]
[IT DARTED TOWARD THE PLATE, BREAKING INTO A WIDE OUTCURVE.]

BASEBALL JOE ON THE GIANTS

[CHAPTER I]
PUTTING THEM OVER

“Now then, Joe, send it over!”

“Show us what you can do!”

“Make the ball hum!”

“Split the ozone!”

These and a host of similar cries greeted Joe Matson as he carelessly caught the ball tossed to him by one of his friends and walked over to a corner of the gymnasium that was marked off as a pitcher’s box.