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27 Men Out - Baseball's Perfect Games (Paperback, 1st Atria Books trade pbk. ed)
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27 Men Out - Baseball's Perfect Games (Paperback, 1st Atria Books trade pbk. ed)
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Now in paperback, Michael Coffey's wonderful book about baseball's
holy grail, the perfect game: "The best baseball book of
the...season" (Booklist). There have been only fifteen perfect
games pitched in the modern era of baseball: The great Cy Young
fittingly hurled the first one, in 1904, and Randy Johnson pitched
the last one, in May 2004. In between, some great and famous
pitchers--Sandy Koufax, Catfish Hunter, Jim Bunning, and Don
Larsen--performed the feat, as did those lesser-known, like Charlie
Robertson and Len Barker. Fifteen in 160,000 games: The odds are
staggering. In 27 Men Out, popular historian Michael Coffey offers
an expansive look at these unsurpassable pitching performances.
Here you'll find play-by-play accounts of each of the fifteen
perfect games and expert assessments of those who pitched them.
Along the way, Coffey goes beyond the box scores to provide
fascinating details about how these games unfolded, as well as
compelling anecdotes about all of the key players--from Koufax's
controversial holdout with Don Drysdale to Mike Witt's
victimization by the baseball commissioner to Dennis Martinez's
struggle up from an impoverished Nicaraguan childhood. A must-have
for baseball fans, historians, and statisticians alike, 27 Men Out
is an exciting new benchmark in sports literature.
General
Imprint: |
Downtown Press
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Country of origin: |
Australia |
Release date: |
June 2005 |
First published: |
April 2005 |
Authors: |
Michael Coffey
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Foreword by: |
Bill James
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Dimensions: |
214 x 140 x 23mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Paperback - Trade
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Pages: |
336 |
Edition: |
1st Atria Books trade pbk. ed |
ISBN-13: |
978-0-7434-4607-5 |
Categories: |
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General
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LSN: |
0-7434-4607-0 |
Barcode: |
9780743446075 |
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