Dick Merriwell's Heroic Players, Or, How the Yale Nine Won the Championship

Excerpt: "Jim Phillips, industriously making himself a master of certain abstruse problems in mathematics, excited the derision of big Bill Brady, chiefly because it was a warm, lazy spring day, and, therefore, as Bill saw it, entirely out of the question for serious work."It''s bad enough to have to go out and do baseball practice," said Jim''s big catcher. The two were sophomores, and had won fa...