# Tom Selby — Our Baseball Club and How It Won the Championship character guide

> Tom Selby in Our Baseball Club and How It Won the Championship by Noah Brooks.

**Role:** supporting

**Also known as:** Thomas Selby

**First appearance:** 0001-our-baseball-club-and-how-it-won-the-championship

## Snapshot

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.

## Who they are

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.

## In the story

### [III: After the Battle](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/our_baseball_club_and_how_it_won_the_championshi_se/chapters/iii-after-the-battle)

Dr. Selby's son, described as a wiry player and the best oarsman on the river.

### [A Turn of the Tide](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/our_baseball_club_and_how_it_won_the_championshi_se/chapters/viii-a-turn-of-the-tide)

Fights Henry Jackson; sent home by Dr. Selby with brown paper and vinegar on his face.

### [Mike Costigan's Discovery](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/our_baseball_club_and_how_it_won_the_championshi_se/chapters/xv-mike-costigan-s-discovery)

Son of Dr. Selby, who helps decipher the telegram and sends a warning to Captain Hiram Porter.

## Links

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