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Dick Bosman's career in Major League Baseball as a player and coach
has spanned more than 50 years. He pitched eleven seasons in the
American League, was the Major League pitching coach for multiple
teams, and has served as a minor league pitching coordinator for
the Tampa Bay Rays since 2001. Throughout his years in baseball,
Bosman has developed a distinct pitching philosophy and astute
insights into the cat-and-mouse game between hitter and pitcher. In
Dick Bosman on Pitching: Lessons from the Life of a Major League
Ballplayer and Pitching Coach, author Ted Leavengood examines
Bosman's life in baseball, from his winning the ERA title in the
American League in 1969 and his no-hitter in 1974 to his current
coaching position with the Tampa Bay Rays. For those wanting an
inside look at the essentials of pitching, Leavengood includes
insights and tips from Bosman throughout the book, compiled through
hours of personal interviews. Bosman has worked for and with some
of the best pitchers and coaches in major league baseball, and he
not only shares stories from their time together but also the many
things he learned from them about the game. Dick Bosman has found
enormous success working with young ballplayers at all levels and
fostered innovations-such as his signature slide step-that have
impacted pitching in today's game. With personal anecdotes from
Bosman, his teammates, and those he coached, Dick Bosman on
Pitching will entertain and inform young pitchers as well as
baseball fans of all generations.
Famed Washington sportswriter Shirley Povich once said that Clark
Griffith's life was a true Horatio Alger story. Born in a frontier
log cabin in Missouri in 1869, Griffith enjoyed a successful
64-year career in baseball that ended with his death in 1955. He
spent 20 seasons as a major league pitcher, another 20 seasons as a
manager--including five as the first manager of the New York
Yankees--and 35 years as owner of the Washington Senators, where he
won three American League pennants and the 1924 World Championship.
One of the game's greatest ambassadors, Griffith made his lasting
mark as a labor leader and as one of the founders of the American
League in 1901. This biography chronicles "The Old Fox's" long life
in baseball, revealing in the process a vast trove of sporting
history and illuminating the changing landscape of both baseball
and American culture.
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