Lefty Locke, Pitcher-Manager (The Big League Series Volume 9)

New York: Barse & Hopkins, 1916. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8x5x2. Wrenn, Charles W. First edition. Edges lightly foxed. 1916 Hard Cover. 317 pp. Black-and-white frontispiece and plates (4 total) by Charles W. Wrenn. "[...] Directed by Locke, the Grays put in an hour of sharp practice that forenoon. As Lefty had stated, the team was practically comprised of winter visitors from the North. Some of them had come South for their health, too. Three were well along in the thirties, and one had passed forty. Yet, for all such handicaps, they were an enthusiastic, energetic team, and they could play the game. At least five of them had once been stars on college nines. Having never lost their love for the game, they had rounded into form wonderfully under the coaching of[...]".