And that became, for himself, the rule of Edward Bok's life.
CHAPTER XI
LAST YEARS IN NEW YORK
From his boyhood days (up to the present writing) Bok was a pronounced
baseball "fan," and there was, too, a baseball team among the Scribner
young men of which he was a part. This team played, each Saturday
afternoon, a team from another publishing house, and for two seasons it
was unbeatable. Not only was this baseball aggregation close to the
hearts of the Scribner employees, but, in an important game, the junior
member of the firm played on it and the senior member was a spectator.
Frank N. Doubleday played on first base; William D. Moffat, later of
Moffat, Yard & Company, and now editor of _The Mentor_, was behind the
bat; Bok pitched; Ernest Dressel North, the present authority on rare
editions of books, was in the field, as were also Ray Safford, now a
director in the Scribner corporation, and Owen W. Brewer, at present a
prominent figure in Chicago's book world. It was a happy group, all
closely banded together in their business interests and in their human
relations as well.
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