Coming Back with the Spitball: A Pitcher's Romance
New York and London: Harper & Brothers, 1914.
Price: $250.00
Hardcover. First edition with A-O code. Frontispiece and three additional photographic illustrations. Red cloth with applied illustration. Cloth faded to pink on spine and front board, else near fine lacking the dust jacket. Signed by the author on the half-title page. Young adult novel, purportedly based on the career of Ed Walsh. The novel stars an over-the-hill alcoholic pitcher who salvages his career by developing the spitball. The author, a Carmel, California native, was friends with Jack London, George Sterling, and others of their circle. *Grobani* 12-37a; *McCue* pp.54-55.
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