This project is now complete. All audio files can be found on our catalog page: http://librivox.org/baseball-joe-of-the-silver-stars-by-howard-r-garis/
"Baseball Joe" Matson has recently moved to Riverside with his family, in this opening volume of Baseball Joe series. Joe is a wide-awake country boy who enjoys playing baseball. We follow his career in the series, and his adventures, as he joins Riverside's local nine and makes good, playing the position he most enjoys - that of pitcher, are recounted here. When not on the diamond, Joe is assisting his father against foes who are trying to steal Mr. Matson's machinery patents.
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 solely ghost-written the 14-volume Baseball Joe series. (Summary by Donald Cummings)
- Text source (only read from this text!): http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/37056
- Type of proof-listening required (Note: please read the PL FAQ): standard
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BC Admin
Genres for the project: Sports Fiction; Children's Fiction/Action & Adventure
Keywords that describe the book: fiction, sports, baseball, juvenile
============================================ - 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 of the Silver Stars, or The Rivals of Riverside, published 1912. - 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:
"Recording by [your name]" - Say:
" Baseball Joe of the Silver Stars , 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 of the Silver Stars by Lester Chadwick . This LibriVox recording is in the Public Domain."
- If you wish, say:
"Recording by [your name]" - Only if applicable, say:
"[Chapter title]"
- At the end of the section, say:
"End of [Chapter]" - If you wish, say:
"Recording by [your name], [city]" - At the end of the book, say (in addition):
"End of Baseball Joe of the Silver Stars, or The Rivals of Riverside, by Lester Chadwick . "
There should be 5 seconds silence at the end of the recording, or 10 seconds for files longer than 30 minutes. - Example filename bballjoesilverstars_##_chadwick_128kb.mp3 (all lower-case) where ## is the section number (e.g. bballjoesilverstars_01_chadwick_128kb.mp3).
- Example ID3 V2 tags
Artist: Lester Chadwick
Title: ## - [Section title]
Album: Baseball Joe of the Silver Stars
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