Baseball's First Superstar (Hardcover)

Alan D. Gaff

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Edité par University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln, 2025

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Hardcover. If there was a first face of baseball, it was arguably Christopher Christy Mathewson. At the opening of the twentieth century, baseball was considered an undignified game played by ruffians for gamblers benefit. Mathewson changed all that. When he signed with the Giants in 1900, his contract stated he wouldnt pitch on Sundays, and he was known for his honesty, integrity, and good looks. In his first fourteen seasons, as a pitcher for the Giants, Mathewson never won fewer than twenty games in a season, and he almost single-handedly won the 1905 World Series. In 1918, though age thirty-eight and exempt from military service, he enlisted for World War I, where he exposed himself to nearly lethal amounts of mustard gas as he taught soldiers how to put on gas masks. When he returned home, he was diagnosed with lung problems and tuberculosis, which led to his untimely death at the age of forty-five. After Mathewsons death, his eulogies were many, but it was impossible to catch the essence of his life in a single newspaper column. Jane Mathewson, his widow, was determined to provide the reading public with a more intimate portrait of her husband and approached prominent sportswriter Bozeman Bulger, who had known Mathewson for twenty years. Bulger wrote a series of articles titled The Life Story of Christy Mathewson. His portraits about the player were amplified by original accounts from Jane, and several unpublished chapters from Mathewson himself, which had been discovered among his papers. These combined accounts allow readers to hear from Mathewson and those who knew him best. A superstar long before that term was coined, Mathewson became an icon of sportsmanship. He was posthumously elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame at its first induction ceremony in 1936. In Baseballs First Superstar Alan D. Gaff brings Mathewson to life through Mathewsons own writings and those of others, largely lost to history until now. A collection of writings about early baseball star Christy Mathewson, including several recently discovered, unpublished chapters written by Mathewson himself. Shipping may be from our Sydney, NSW warehouse or from our UK or US warehouse, depending on stock availability.…

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Titre
Baseball's First Superstar (Hardcover)
Auteur
Alan D. Gaff
Éditeur
University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln
Année de publication
2025
État de l'article
new
Reliure
Hardcover
Langue
anglais
ISBN à 10 chiffres
1496243277
ISBN à 13 chiffres
9781496243270

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