Project Gutenberg 2010-02-25 Public domain in the USA. 68 Overton, Mark Jack Winters' Baseball Team; Or, The Rivals of the Diamond Reading ease score: 76.0 (7th grade). Fairly easy to read. E-text prepared by Roger Frank and the Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team (http://www.pgdp.net) "Jack Winters' Baseball Team; Or, The Rivals of the Diamond" by Mark Overton is a novel written in the early 20th century. The story revolves around the spirited youth of Chester, who rally around their baseball team under the leadership of Jack Winters. The plot primarily focuses on the challenges and rivalries of a crucial upcoming game against the formidable Harmony team, highlighting themes of friendship, loyalty, and the pressure faced by young athletes. At the start of the novel, we meet Jack, Steve, and Toby, three boys anxiously discussing their star player, Fred Badger, who has been acting strangely. As the narrative unfolds, we learn about the contrasting characters and backgrounds of the boys in Chester, with Jack emerging as a natural leader. The chapter sets the stage for the upcoming pivotal game, revealing the mounting pressure on Fred as he grapples with his mother's health and the potential temptations tied to the game. Readers are drawn into an engaging tale of high-stakes baseball and the integrity needed to succeed both on and off the field. (This is an automatically generated summary.) en Baseball -- Juvenile fiction PZ Text Browsing: Children & Young Adult Reading Browsing: Fiction 285001 284904 2024-12-13T10:28:26.155547 2023-09-14T04:08:09.949028 text/html text/html 292426 2010-02-25T17:07:34 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 229429 2010-02-25T17:09:55 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 337298 2024-12-13T10:28:35.525457 application/epub+zip 338651 2024-12-13T10:28:30.499520 application/epub+zip 171438 2024-12-13T10:28:28.980520 application/epub+zip 570976 2024-12-13T10:28:39.210439 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 542290 2024-12-13T10:28:34.390463 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 355247 2022-09-14T11:41:01.110991 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 254159 254054 2024-12-13T10:28:25.417528 2023-09-14T04:08:09.293034 text/plain; charset=us-ascii text/plain 253836 2010-02-25T17:01:02 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 97227 2010-02-25T17:01:02 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 253846 2010-02-25T17:01:02 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 97229 2010-02-25T17:01:03 text/plain; charset=us-ascii application/zip 20701 2024-12-13T10:28:39.352438 application/rdf+xml 21186 2024-12-13T10:28:29.545495 image/jpeg 4575 2024-12-13T10:28:29.266490 image/jpeg 321896 2024-12-13T10:28:26.186523 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog