In the eighty-year-old classic based on the author's career in the minor leagues, Chase Alloway tires of the factory grind and quits to play professional baseball and becomes caught in the middle of a small-town baseball rivalry. "Written in a spirit and with a knowledge of baseball that will appeal at once to the healthy American boy and girl." - The Publishers Weekly "His description of the inside life of league team with its comradeship and jealousies, and its pitfalls for those who are striving for the front by honest play, will be a revelation to the many who see only that which is visible from the bleachers." - Field And Stream
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