Pitching in a Pinch: Or, Baseball From the Inside - Couverture souple

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ISBN 10 : 0812822072 ISBN 13 : 9780812822076

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Book by Mathewson Christy

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Présentation de l'éditeur

An inside baseball memoir from the game's first superstar. “To be a successful pitcher in the Big Leagues, a man must have the head and the arm.” -Christy Mathewson “His most celebrated work, and for good reason. Mathewson called attention to the inner workings of the sport—the strategies and signals that teams developed to outmaneuver their opponents: bunts, stolen bases, defensive shifts.” -Luke Epplin, The New Yorker, October 25, 2013 “You don’t have to be a Giants fan to enjoy this one since it gives readers an idea about what baseball was like in the salad days of the major leagues, from how the game was played to insights on the players who played the game.” -Bill Chastain, 100 Things Giants Fans Should Know & Do Before They Die, 2011 One of baseball's more enduring classics and earliest memoirs, Christy Mathewson's primer, first published in 1912, has also become one of the game's foremost anthropologizes. Mathewson was one of baseball's first immortals: he was a star on the field, winning 373 games between 1900 and 1916--all but one as a Giant; an educated gentleman off the field; and a legitimate war hero who died from the effects of being gassed in World War I. Pitching in a Pinch passes on Mathewson's substantial knowledge of the game in general, and the intricacies of the mound in particular. The book's continuing delight and value rests in Mathewson's facility for capturing--from the inside--the game's ethos in the early 20th century, and the generous combination of anecdote and insight with which he shares it. His lively, humorous and fascinating book of baseball insights, stories, and wisdom, was originally in 1912 and offers a new generation of readers with Mathewson’s straightforward perspective on the diamond of yore—on the players, the chances they took, the superstitions they believed in, and, most of all, their love of the game. CONTENTS I— The Most Dangerous Batters I have Met II— “Take Him Out!” III— Pitching in a Pinch IV— Big League Pitchers and their Peculiarities V— Playing the Game from the Bench VI— Coaching—Good and Bad VII— Honest and Dishonest Sign Stealing VIII— Umpires and Close Decisions IX— The Game that Cost a Pennant X— When the Teams Are in Spring Training XI— Jinxes and what they Mean to a Ball-Player XII— Base Runners and how they Help a Pitcher to Win XIII— Notable Instances where the “Inside” Game has Failed

Présentation de l'éditeur

It's difficult to think of an athlete today as universally beloved as a player and respected as a person as Christy Mathewson was nearly a century ago. Mathewson was, by all accounts, the finest pitcher of the first decade of the 20th century, and is widely considered one of the brightest and most interesting baseball thinkers of any era. Mathewson's Pitching in a Pinch was an instant hit when first published a century ago. For boys of that generation it was cultural currency like the Harry Potter stories are for kids today: every boy had read it, everyone knew Matty's stories, and everyone could quote his lines about courage, leadership, and teamwork by heart. The Boy Scouts of America issued a special edition for its members. If you were a boy a century ago, you probably loved Matty, and you definitely had read his book. And today it's not hard to understand why. Pitching in a Pinch is a wonder: Mathewson weaves together strands including how-to advice on strategy and techniques for playing the game, funny stories about the other stars of his day, and his approach to winning on the field and off. From the Introduction by John N. Wheeler: "Besides being a national hero, Matty is one of the closest students of baseball that ever came into the Big League. By players, he has long been recognized as the greatest pitcher the game has produced. . .In this book he is telling the reader of the game as it is played in the Big Leagues. It's as good as his pitching. . ."

Détails de l'édition

• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0812822072
• ISBN 13: 9780812822076
• Reliure: Broché
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