This project is now in the catalogue. All audio files can be found on our catalogue page:
https://librivox.org/baseball-joe-at-yale-by-howard-r-garis/
"Baseball Joe" Matson's great ambition is to become a professional baseball pitcher. The Baseball Joe series follows his career as he seeks to attain his goal. In this volume, Joe follows the wishes of his parents and attends college, and seeks to join the Yale University varsity baseball nine. Much to his disappointment, he finds that he cannot immediately do so, due a Yale rule barring Freshmen from placement on the varsity. We follow his college adventures through his first and second years, with emphasis on his trials in making the team in year two, including the attempts of a rival pitcher to keep him off the team.
Lester Chadwick is one of dozens of house pseudonyms created by the Stratemeyer Syndicate in the early to mid 1900's, to "author" children's series. Contract writers (whose identities were to remain unknown under tight secrecy) were hired to write the books in the series under the various names, usually multiple writers contributing volumes to a particular series. Howard R. Garis (1873-1962) is thought to have ghost-written most, if not all, of the 14-volume Baseball Joe series. (Summary by Donald Cummings)
- Text source (only read from this text!): http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/40105
- Type of proof-listening required (Note: please read the PL FAQ): standard
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[*] Project Code: larAw4Kz
[*]Link to author on Wikipedia (if available): (Lester Chadwick) : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lester_Chadwick
[*]Link to title on Wikipedia (if available): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baseball_Joe
[*]Number of sections (files) this project will have: 30
[*]Does the project have an introduction or preface [y/n]: No
[*]Original publication date (if known): 1913
[*]If you are a new volunteer, how would you like your name (or pseudonym) credited in the catalog? Do you have a URL you would like associated with your name?:
Genres for the project: Sports Fiction; Children's Fiction
Keywords that describe the book: fiction, college, sports, baseball, juvenile, baseball joe, yale
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[*]The reader will record the following at the beginning and end of each file:
No more than 0.5 to 1 second of silence at the beginning of the recording!
START of recording (Intro):
- "Chapter [number] of Baseball Joe at Yale, or Pitching for the College Championship, published 1913. This is a LibriVox recording. All LibriVox recordings are in the public domain. For more information, or to volunteer, please visit: librivox DOT org"
- If you wish, say:
"Reading by [your name], [city, your blog, podcast, web address]" - Say:
"Baseball Joe at Yale, by Lester Chadwick. [Chapter]"
For the second and all subsequent sections, you may optionally use the shortened form of this intro disclaimer:
- "Chapter [number] of Baseball Joe at Yale by Lester Chadwick. This LibriVox recording is in the Public Domain."
- If you wish, say:
"Reading by [your name], [city, your blog, podcast, web address]" - Only if applicable, say:
"[Chapter title]"
- At the end of the section, say:
"End of [Chapter]" - If you wish, say:
"Reading by [your name], [city, your blog, podcast, web address]" - At the end of the book, say (in addition):
"End of Baseball Joe at Yale, or Pitching for the College Championship, by Lester Chadwick. "
There should be 5 seconds silence at the end of the recording.
[*]Example filename bbjoeatyale_##_chadwick_128kb.mp3 (all lower-case) where ## is the section number (e.g. bbjoeatyale_01_chadwick_128kb.mp3)
[*]ID3 V2 tags are not necessary.
Enter section/chapter titles in the MW. Author and book title will be set automatically during cataloging.
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