Our Baseball Club and How It Won the Championship · Character
Tom Selby
The plain-speaking blacksmith who shoes horses, sizes up men, and warns Larry Boyne that baseball fever ruins young idlers who never learn to be fit for anything else.
supporting
Also known as Thomas Selby
First appearance: our baseball club and how it won the championship
As a supporting figure in Our Baseball Club and How It Won the Championship, Tom Selby is not background color—the story leans on what they do once the chapter opens.
Tom Selby works at the forge where Larry brings his nag, and their talk reveals the older man's shrewd, unsentimental judgment of the town's baseball-mad youth. He admires Larry as 'older than your years' yet worries the game will consume him as it consumes the kids who think of nothing else from morning till night. His caution frames the central question of the early chapters: whether baseball is a bridge over hard times or a trap.
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- Rivals and minor characters
- Catalpas team and supporters
- Protagonist
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In this chapter, the emotional and psychological peak occurs as the entire town of Catalpa is gripped by fever…
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