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Pitching in a Pinch

Name: Pitching in a Pinch
Brand: University of Nebraska Press
SKU: 9780803282124
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Автор: Christy Mathewson

Език:

Корици: С меки корици

Издател: University of Nebraska Press

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Christy Mathewson (1880-1925) was the greatest baseball pitcher of his day, a hero with appeal reach...

Информация за книгата

Автор

Christy Mathewson

Език

Английски език

Корици

Книга - С меки корици

Издадена

1994

страници

320

EAN

9780803282124

ISBN

0803282125

Enbook ID

04924418

Издател

University of Nebraska Press

Теглоt

369

Размери

133 x 203 x 20

Пълно описание

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. Introducing this Bison Books edition is Eric Rolfe Greenberg, whose acclaimed novel "The Celebrant" (1993), also a Bison Book, portrays the immortal Christy Mathewson.