27 Men Out: Baseball's Perfect Games - Couverture rigide

Coffey, Michael

 
9780743446068: 27 Men Out: Baseball's Perfect Games
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ISBN 10 : 0743446062 ISBN 13 : 9780743446068
Editeur : Atria Books, 2004

Synopsis

Book by Coffey Michael

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Présentation de l'éditeur

Now in paperback, Michael Coffey's wonderful book about baseball's holy grail, the perfect game: “The best baseball book of the...season” ( Booklist).

There have been only fifteen perfect games pitched in the modern era of baseball: The great Cy Young fittingly hurled the first one, in 1904, and Randy Johnson pitched the last one, in May 2004. In between, some great and famous pitchers—Sandy Koufax, Catfish Hunter, Jim Bunning, and Don Larsen—performed the feat, as did those lesser-known, like Charlie Robertson and Len Barker. Fifteen in 160,000 games: The odds are staggering.

In 27 Men Out, popular historian Michael Coffey offers an expansive look at these unsurpassable pitching performances. Here you'll find play-by-play accounts of each of the fifteen perfect games and expert assessments of those who pitched them. Along the way, Coffey goes beyond the box scores to provide fascinating details about how these games unfolded, as well as compelling anecdotes about all of the key players—from Koufax's controversial holdout with Don Drysdale to Mike Witt's victimization by the baseball commissioner to Dennis Martinez's struggle up from an impoverished Nicaraguan childhood.

A must-have for baseball fans, historians, and statisticians alike, 27 Men Out is an exciting new benchmark in sports literature.

Biographie de l'auteur

Bill James made his mark in the 1970s and 1980s with his Baseball Abstracts. He has been tearing down preconceived notions about America’s national pastime ever since. He is currently the Senior Advisor on Baseball Operations for the Boston Red Sox. James lives in Lawrence, Kansas, with his wife, Susan McCarthy, and three children.

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Éditeur
Atria Books
Date d'édition
2004
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0743446062
ISBN 13 
9780743446068
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
320
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
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9780743446075: 27 Men Out: Baseball's Perfect Games

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ISBN 10 :  0743446070 ISBN 13 :  9780743446075
Editeur : Atria, 2005
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