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Baseball Joe in the Big League

Baseball Joe in the Big League by Lester Chadwick is available here as the complete text, split into 772 reading sections of 5 sentences, each with audio and tap-to-define vocabulary.

Lester Chadwick30 chapters

Baseball Joe in the Big League by Lester Chadwick. Complete source text from Project Gutenberg eBook #27584.

30 chaptersComplete chronicle

Five linesIn each reading

US EnglishNarration and vocabulary

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Academic course · 30 chapters

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Baseball Joe in the Big League

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This edition of Baseball Joe in the Big League by Lester Chadwick carries the complete text of Project Gutenberg eBook #27584, divided into 30 chapters and 772 reading sections of 5 sentences each. Every sentence of the source is kept, and each chapter records which sentences cover which part of the story. Any word can be tapped for its pronunciation and dictionary entry, and each section carries a contextual illustration generated from the passage itself.

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Project Gutenberg eBook #27584, unabridged. The Project Gutenberg header, footer and licence are removed.

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About 321 minutes of reading across 772 sections of 5 sentences each, at an unhurried pace.

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Baseball: A word that appears in the opening chapter of Baseball Joe in the Big League; the reader can tap it to hear it and see its dictionary entry.
League: A word that appears in the opening chapter of Baseball Joe in the Big League; the reader can tap it to hear it and see its dictionary entry.
Young: A word that appears in the opening chapter of Baseball Joe in the Big League; the reader can tap it to hear it and see its dictionary entry.
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Baseball Joe in the Big League

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