Right Off the Bat: Baseball Ballads
Right Off the Bat: Baseball Ballads by William Frederick Kirk is available here as the complete text, split into 118 reading sections of 5 sentences, each with audio and tap-to-define vocabulary.
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Right Off the Bat: Baseball Ballads
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Project Gutenberg eBook #35243, unabridged. The Project Gutenberg header, footer and licence are removed.
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About 49 minutes of reading across 118 sections of 5 sentences each, at an unhurried pace.
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- Right
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- Ballade
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- Casey
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