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Second Base Sloan
Christy Mathewson
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R902
Discovery Miles 9 020
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An inside baseball memoir from the game's first superstar, with a
foreword by Chad HarbachChristy Mathewson was one of the most
dominant pitchers ever to play baseball. Posthumously inducted into
the Baseball Hall of Fame as one of the -Five Immortals, - he was
an unstoppable force on the mound, winning at least twenty-two
games for twelve straight seasons and pitching three complete-game
shutouts in the 1905 World Series. Pitching in a Pinch, his witty
and digestible book of baseball insights, stories, and wisdom, was
first published over a hundred years ago and presents readers with
Mathewson's plainspoken perspective on the diamond of yore--on the
players, the chances they took, the jinxes they believed in, and,
most of all, their love of the game. Baseball fans will love to
read first-hand accounts of the infamous Merkle's Boner incident,
Giants manager John McGraw, and the unstoppable Johnny Evers and to
learn how much--and just how little--has really changed in a
hundred years. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the
leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking
world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a
global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across
genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide
authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by
distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as
up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.
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Catcher Craig (Paperback)
Christy Mathewson; Illustrated by Charles M. Relyea
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R986
Discovery Miles 9 860
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Ships in 10 - 15 working days
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Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the
1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly
expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable,
high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.
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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