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The Old Ball Game - How John McGraw, Christy Mathewson, and the New York Giants Created Modern Baseball (Paperback)
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The Old Ball Game - How John McGraw, Christy Mathewson, and the New York Giants Created Modern Baseball (Paperback)
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In The Old Ball Game, Frank Deford, NPR sports commentator and
Sports Illustrated journalist retells the story of an unusual
friendship between two towering figures in baseball history. At the
turn of the twentieth century, Christy Mathewson was one of
baseball's first superstars. Over six feet tall, clean cut, and
college educated, he didn't pitch on the Sabbath and rarely spoke
an ill word about anyone. He also had one of the most devastating
arms in all of baseball. New York Giants manager John McGraw, by
contrast, was ferocious. The pugnacious tough guy was already a
star infielder who, with the Baltimore Orioles, helped develop a
new, scrappy style of baseball, with plays like the hit-and-run,
the Baltimore chop, and the squeeze play. When McGraw joined the
Giants in 1902, the Giants were coming off their worst season ever.
Yet within three years, Mathewson clinched New York City's first
World Series for McGraw's team by throwing three straight shutouts
in only six days, an incredible feat that is invariably called the
greatest World Series performance ever. Because of their wonderful
odd-couple association, baseball had its first superstar, the
Giants ascended into legend, and baseball as a national pastime
bloomed.
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