CONTENTS

CHAPTER   PAGE
I The Unlucky Seventh 11
II Stopping a Rally 19
III Tied In the Eighth 24
IV Real Pitching 33
V One For Lefty 39
VI A Summons from the Manager 45
VII A Girl and the Girl 52
VIII At the Theater 59
IX “In Bad” 68
X The Grouch 78
XI On the Raw Edge 85
XII Uncertainty 90
XIII Suspense 96
XIV A Wild Heave 102
XV Thrown Away 108
XVI Hot Words 113
XVII The Unapproachable Locke 120
XVIII Under a Cloud 127
XIX The Stranger 136
XX The Retired Manager 144
XXI Back In the Game 150
XXII Building Up the Team 155
XXIII The Man Who Denied Himself 161
XXIV Perplexed 167
XXV Stranger Gets a Job 173
XXVI Mighty Queer 179
XXVII Did He Remember? 184
XXVIII A New Pitcher 192
XXIX At the Field 199
XXX Baseball Luck 206
XXXI Pitchers’ Waterloo 212
XXXII Filling the Breach 218
XXXIII The Man on the Mound 222
XXXIV The Other Pitcher 227
XXXV The Steal Home 233
XXXVI Stranger Is Annoyed 238
XXXVII The Doctor’s Doubts 244
XXXVIII First Position 249
XXXIX A Troubled Mind 256
XL The Reporter 262
XLI The Man Who Knew 266
XLII Failure 271
XLIII The Come-back 274
XLIV Back to His Own 280
XLV The Girls In the Box 287
XLVI The Game of His Life 292