Excerpt from My Baseball Diary: A Famed American Author Recalls the Wonderful World of Baseball, Yesterday and Today In 1912, my Uncle Tom bought me a blue baseball suit. I liked it that the suit was blue. During those days, the White Sox wore blue suits on the road. Father Dondaville arranged to take a picture Of me in my suit, which he did in front of the parish house on Grand Boulevard. He had me squat like a catcher, with my hat turned around. I had a boy's catcher's mitt which cost about twenty-five cents. The picture is now lost, but I have frequently wished that I still had it. At home, the grownups laughed about the picture. But I believed that it gave me great importance. In the pic ture, my expression was so serious as to be funny. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.