Pitching in a Pinch: Baseball from the Inside - Paperback
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Pitching in a Pinch: Baseball from the Inside - Paperback
$27.00
by Christy Mathewson (Author), Chad Harbach (Foreword by), Red Smith (Afterword by)
An inside baseball memoir from the game's first superstar, with a foreword by Chad Harbach
Christy 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.Author Biography
Christy Mathewson (1880-1925) was the first national baseball superstar through his seventeen-year major league career, mostly with the New York Giants.
Chad Harbach is the author of the bestselling and critically acclaimed novel The Art of Fielding. He lives in Charlottesville, Virginia. Red Smith (1905-1982) was one of the greatest sportswriters of all time. He was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for commentary in 1976.
Number of Pages: 192
Dimensions: 0.53 x 8.02 x 4.87 IN
Publication Date: March 13, 2013
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