THE MANAGER OF MADDEN'S HILL by ZANE GREY
1001 Classic Short Stories & Tales
Jon Hagadorn
4.5 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 5 June 2024
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Summary
A young crippled boy who has learned baseball inside and out gets a chance to become a manager for a local boys team, and quickly learns the pain and the glory that comes with coaching.
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| 0:00.0 | The |
| 0:07.0 | The Welcome back everyone to 1001 classic short stories and tales. This is your host, John Haggardorn. |
| 0:35.3 | And today we're doing another Zane Gray baseball story, |
| 0:38.2 | titled The Manager of Madden's Hill. |
| 0:41.2 | And now our story. |
| 0:43.9 | Willie Howarth loved baseball. |
| 0:46.3 | He loved it all the more because he was a cripple. |
| 0:49.1 | The game was more beautiful and wonderful to him because he would never be able to play it. |
| 0:53.8 | For Willie had been born with one leg shorter than the other. He could not would never be able to play it. For Willie had been |
| 0:54.6 | born with one leg shorter than the other. He could not run, and at 11 years of age it was all |
| 0:59.5 | he could do to walk with a crutch. Nevertheless, Willie knew more about baseball than any other |
| 1:05.1 | boy on Madden's Hill. An uncle of his had once been a ball player, and he had taught Willie |
| 1:10.0 | the fine points of the game. |
| 1:12.0 | And this uncle's ball-player friends, who occasionally visited him, had imparted to Willie the vernacular of the game. |
| 1:19.0 | So that Willie's knowledge of players and play, and particularly of the strange talk, |
| 1:23.6 | the wild and whirling words on the lips of the real baseball men, |
| 1:27.2 | made him the envy of every boy on Madden's Hill, and a mind of information. |
| 1:32.5 | Willie never missed attending the games played on the lots, |
| 1:35.0 | and he could tell why they were won or lost. |
| 1:38.8 | Willie suffered considerable pain, mostly at night, |
| 1:41.9 | and this had given him a habit of lying awake in the dark hours, |
| 1:45.1 | grieving over that crooked leg that forever shut him out of the heritage of youth. |
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