Pitching in a Pinch or Baseball from the Inside - Couverture souple

Mathewson, Christy

 
9780803282124: Pitching in a Pinch or Baseball from the Inside
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 0803282125 ISBN 13 : 9780803282124
Editeur : University of Nebraska Press, 1994

Synopsis

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.

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À propos de l?auteur

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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Éditeur
University of Nebraska Press
Date d'édition
1994
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0803282125
ISBN 13 
9780803282124
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
320
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Personne responsable
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