Pulp Fiction, 1943 · page 7 of 100
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# Page Analysis This is an interior story page from a pulp fiction baseball novella by Joe Archibald titled "Thrilling Baseball Novelet." The page features Chapter I and includes both an illustration and prose text. The illustration shows a baseball pitcher in mid-throw with other players visible. The story opens with Lou Bracker, a shortstop, encouraging his pitcher while wishing for the absent Lefty Boyle, a twenty-game winner now absent for several years due to what appears to be baseball politics that have separated the players between teams.
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Thrilling Baseball Novetet By Joe Archibald - Sour | rg ee ee er oe ee: 7 : CHAPTER I! HE PITCHER wound up and threw another ball. Lou Bracker, at shortstop, kicked up dirt. Two were on for free and the man up there now was murder with a willow flail. Lou yelled half-hearted encouragement at the pitcher, wishing he had Lefty Boyle in ‘ > — taker * éi— he ° OE : ‘ “y.¢ there. But he had to forget Lefty. for the Blues’ twenty-game winner of iast year was not around and wouldn’t be around for five or six years. Up in the stands they would be talking about Lefty. In the dugouts they were trying to forget him, Lou gianced over at the Metro bench, If it hadn’t veen for conniving baseball politics, he would be over there now, di- Eomichoo <S (E(@)