Christy Mathewson (1880-1925) was the greatest baseball pitcher of
his day, a hero with appeal reaching beyond sports. A
college-educated player from Pennsylvania farm country, he restored
respectability to a game tarnished by the rowdies who had dominated
baseball in the 1890s.
"Pitching in a Pinch," originally published in 1912, is an
insider's account blending anecdote, biography, instruction, and
social history. It celebrates baseball as it was played in the
first decade of the twentieth century by famous contemporaries like
Honus Wagner and Rube Marquand, managers like John McGraw and
Connie Mack, and many others. Always sensitive to psychology as
well as technique, Mathewson describes the "dangerous batters" he
faced, the "peculiarities" of big-league pitchers, the "good and
bad" of coaching, umpiring, sign-stealing, base-running, spring
training, and the importance of superstition to athletes. Matty, as
he was called, makes the reader feel that tense moment when a
player in a pinch must use his head.
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