Pitching in a Pinch, Or, Baseball from the Inside
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Sprache:Englisch
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Verlag:University of Nebraska Press
Fr. 31.90
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Beschreibung
Produktdetails
Einband
Taschenbuch
Erscheinungsdatum
01.03.1994
Verlag
University of Nebraska PressSeitenzahl
320
Maße (L/B/H)
20.3/13.4/2 cm
Gewicht
367 g
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN
978-0-8032-8212-4
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.
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