Pitching in a Pinch or Baseball from the Inside - Brossura

Mathewson, Christy

 
9780803282124: Pitching in a Pinch or Baseball from the Inside
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ISBN 10: 0803282125 ISBN 13: 9780803282124
Casa editrice: Univ of Nebraska Pr, 1994

Sinossi

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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Informazioni sull?autore

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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Editore
Univ of Nebraska Pr
Data di pubblicazione
1994
Lingua
Inglese
ISBN 10 
0803282125
ISBN 13 
9780803282124
Rilegatura
Copertina flessibile
Numero di pagine
320
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Persona responsabile
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