COPYRIGHT INFO

      The Baseball Megapack is copyright © 2013 by Wildside Press LLC. All rights reserved. For more information, contact the publisher through wildsidepress.com or the Wildside Press Forums.

      * * * *

      “Aw, Let the Kid Hit,” by Michael Avallone, originally appeared in Baseball Stories, Spring 1950.

      “The Wild Man,” by Octavus Roy Cohen, originally appeared in The All-Story, August 28, 1915.

      “The Trump Card,” by Octavus Roy Cohen, originally appeared in All-Story Weekly, July 19, 1919.

      “MacGinley Catches Mice,” by A. Lincoln Bender, originally appeared in All-Story Weekly, Sept. 22, 1917.

      “Jack and the Bean Ball,” by Samuel G. Camp, originally appeared in The All-Story, Sept. 15, 1917.

      “Inform Mr. Sweeney,” by Samuel G. Camp, originally appeared in All-Story Weekly, May. 15, 1920.

      “The Redheaded Outfield,” by Zane Grey, is taken from The Redheaded Outfield and other Baseball Stories (1915).

      “The Rube,” by Zane Grey, is taken from The Redheaded Outfield and other Baseball Stories (1915).

      “The Rube’s Pennant,” by Zane Grey, is taken from The Redheaded Outfield and other Baseball Stories (1915).

      “The Rube’s Honeymoon,” by Zane Grey, is taken from The Redheaded Outfield and other Baseball Stories (1915).

      “The Rube’s Waterloo,” by Zane Grey, is taken from The Redheaded Outfield and other Baseball Stories (1915).

      “Breaking Into Fast Company,” by Zane Grey, is taken from The Redheaded Outfield and other Baseball Stories (1915).

      “The Knocker,” by Zane Grey, is taken from The Redheaded Outfield and other Baseball Stories (1915).

      “The Winning Ball,” by Zane Grey, is taken from The Redheaded Outfield and other Baseball Stories (1915).

      “False Colors,” by Zane Grey, is taken from The Redheaded Outfield and other Baseball Stories (1915).

      “The Manager of Madden’s Hill,” by Zane Grey, is taken from The Redheaded Outfield and other Baseball Stories (1915).

      “Old Well-Well,” by Zane Grey, is taken from The Redheaded Outfield and other Baseball Stories (1915).

      “The Young Pitcher,” by Zane Grey, originally appeared in 1911.

      A NOTE FROM THE PUBLISHER

      Welcome to our celebration of baseball! Whatever your age, if you enjoy watching or playing the game, we guarantee you’ll find something you’ll like in this Megapack.

      We are not alone in our enthusiasm for the sport: we had no trouble uncovering a wide range of baseball stories to include. Taking time off from his western writing, Zane Gray published a number of baseball tales, and we have reprinted quite a few here. And baseball stories were a staple in the general-interest magazines of the early 20th Century, where we find entries from Octavus Roy Cohen, Samuel G. Camp, and A. Lincoln Bender. Pulp-master Michael Avallone contributes one of his early tales from Baseball Stories—an entire pulp magazine devoted to baseball fiction!—with “Aw, Let the Kid Hit.” And from the long-running “Baseball Joe” series of young adult novels we reprint no less than six volumes, starting with #1.

      ATTN: KINDLE READERS

      The Kindle versions of our Megapacks employ active tables of contents for easy navigation…please look for one before writing reviews on Amazon that complain about the lack! (They are sometimes at the ends of ebooks, depending on your version or ebook reader.)

      RECOMMEND A FAVORITE STORY?

      Do you know a great classic science fiction story, or have a favorite author whom you believe is perfect for the Megapack series? We’d love your suggestions! You can post them on our message board at http://movies.ning.com/forum (there is an area for Wildside Press comments).

      Note: we only consider stories that have already been professionally published. This is not a market for new works.

      TYPOS

      Unfortunately, as hard as we try, a few typos do slip through. We update our ebooks periodically, so make sure you have the current version (or download a fresh copy if it’s been sitting in your ebook reader for months.) It may have already been updated.

      If you spot a new typo, please let us know. We’ll fix it for everyone (and email a revised copy to you when it’s updated, in either epub or Kindle format, if you provide contact information). You can email the publisher at [email protected].

      * * * *

      THE MEGAPACK SERIES

      Collect them all!

      The Adventure Megapack

      The Boys’ Adventure Megapack

      The Christmas Megapack

      The Second Christmas Megapack

      The Classic American Short Story Megapack

      The Dan Carter, Cub Scout Megapack

      The Cowboy Megapack

      The Craig Kennedy Scientific Detective Megapack

      The Cthulhu Mythos Megapack

      The Detective Megapack

      The Father Brown Megapack

      The Ghost Story Megapack

      The Second Ghost Story Megapack

      The Third Ghost Story Megapack

      The Horror Megapack

      The Macabre Megapack

      The Second Macabre Megapack

      The Martian Megapack

      The Military Megapack

      The Mummy Megapack

      The First Mystery Megapack

      The Penny Parker Megapack

      The Pulp Fiction Megapack

      The Rover Boys Megapack

      The First Science Fiction Megapack

      The Second Science Fiction Megapack

      The Third Science Fiction Megapack

      The Fourth Science Fiction Megapack

      The Fifth Science Fiction Megapack

      The Sixth Science Fiction Megapack

      The Penny Parker Megapack

      The Pinocchio Megapack

      The Steampunk Megapack

      The Tom Corbett, Space Cadet Megapack

      The Tom Swift Megapack

      The Vampire Megapack

      The Victorian Mystery Megapack

      The Werewolf Megapack

      The Western Megapack

      The Second Western Megapack

      The Wizard of Oz Megapack

      AUTHOR MEGAPACKS

      The E.F. Benson Megapack

      The Second E.F. Benson Megapack

      The B.M. Bower Megapack

      The Wilkie Collins Megapack

      The Philip K. Dick Megapack

      The Jacques Futrelle Megapack

      The Randall Garrett Megapack

      The Second Randall Garrett Megapack

      The G.A. Henty Megapack

      The M.R.