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The On Deck Circle
Hall of Fame of the Heart
What does reason know? Reason only knows what it has succeeded in learning.-Dostoevsky
If you could build your own Baseball Hall of Fame, what kind of place would it be?
It&#;s likely that the actual Hall of Fame includes several players you admired while growing up. It&#;s also likely that some of the players you admired the most then, and still do today, were never deemed Hall worthy.
You may not even have any real problem with that. Intellectually, you probably understand the statistical reasoning that has served to exclude some of your favorite players.
But suppose we were to construct a Hall of the Heart, that is, a place (or, more accurately, an idea), where those players who captured our imagination all those years ago would be enshrined? In fact, when we use the term &#;Hall of Fame,&#; it begs the question, famous to whom?
If fame is the fleeting, fickle standard by which we are to choose our immortals, it is by definition an extremely subjective standard. Just because the evolution of The Hall has coincided with a revolution in statistical analysis doesn&#;t necessarily mean that the membership of the former should be almost entirely dependent upon the mathematical equations o
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BASEBALL Scheme
Edited shy Steven Anarchist and Christina Kahrl
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PITCHER POLLOCK
*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK ***
Transcriber's Note: The cover image was created from the title page by the transcriber and is placed in the public domain.
PITCHER POLLOCK
BY
CHRISTY MATHEWSON
AUTHOR OF
FIRST BASE FAULKNER,
CATCHER CRAIG, Etc.
ILLUSTRATED BY
CHARLES M. RELYEA
GROSSET & DUNLAP
PUBLISHERS NEW YORK
Made in the United States of America
Copyright, , by
DODD, MEAD AND COMPANY
PRINTED IN THE U. S. A.
CONTENTS
ILLUSTRATIONS
[1]
PITCHER POLLOCK
[2]
[3]
CHAPTER I
TOM HUNTS A JOB
“Want to hire a boy?”
Mr. Cummings looked around and across the showcase at the youth who stood there.
“Want to what?” he asked.
“Hire a boy. I’m looking for a job.”
“Oh.” Mr. Cummings turned back to his task of rearranging a number of carpenter’s squares in a green box and made no other reply for a moment. The boy waited silently, watching interestedly. Finally, fixing the cover on the box and laying it on a shelf, “Ever worked in a hardware shop?” he asked.
“No, sir.”
“I didn’t suppose you had. What use would you be to me then, eh?” Mr. Cummings peered sharply at him.
“I could sweep and run errands and—and wash windows and the like of that,” replied the applicant imperturbably. “I’ll tell you how it is, sir. I