First Inning Presss imprint: 3 books

Blue sky, green fields, a perfectly lined infield, and a cheering crowd to boot. That’s what Joe Matson, Baseball Joe, finds when he steps onto the campus of Yale University in the early twentieth century. Joe has high hopes. He wants a good education. He also wants to play baseball. Joe...

No Facebook, Google, Instagram, or cellphones .Just pluck, wit, forging relationships, setting goals, overcoming whatever gets in your way. That’s the world of Joe Matson, also known as Baseball Joe. Joe Matson is just an ordinary kid in a typical Midwestern town. He loves to...

“No cellphones. No Google. Just pluck and wit.” That’s the way one modern critic describes these exciting tales from the early twentieth century, written for boys of the time. But really, they are universal tales of setting goals, overcoming adversity, and achieving what at some points...