Pitching In A Pinch Or Baseball From The Inside

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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. Pitchingøin 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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High quality reprint of Pitching in A Pinch: or, Baseball from the inside by Christopher (Christy) Mathewson.

In one of baseball?s earliest and greatest memoirs, Christy Mathewson takes readers back in time to the "dead ball" era of baseball before the days of power hitting sluggers like Babe Ruth. This period was characterized by low scoring games and teams relying on infield play and stolen bases to score their points. Of the dead ball pitchers, there was no one better than Christy "Big Six" Mathewson who played nearly his entire career with the New York Giants. He remains one of the most winning pitchers in baseball history and his play in the 1905 World Series is often considered to be the greatest pitching performance of all time. In "Pitching in a Pinch," Mathewson provides valuable and intriguing insight into a classic era in baseball history. At the same time, his experience, wisdom and journey into the mind of a player remains relevant today. As a classic, entertaining and unforgettable work of baseball history, "Pitching in a Pinch" ranks among the best.

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Among baseball achievements, the perfect game--one in which no runners reach base--remains the greatest. Though many have come close, only 20 pitchers have achieved such perfection in more than a century of baseball. This exhaustive compendium examines the fascinating story behind every perfect game and uncovers details both great and small, illuminating the majesty of these titanic achievements. The faithfully narrated record of all 20 games--punctuated by statistics, trivia, little-known anecdotes, and personal memories from both witnesses and the pitchers themselves--gets inside the minds of the players who made baseball history. In addition to profiling some of the game's greatest pitchers, such as Cy Young, Sandy Koufax, and Randy Johnson, or others including Charley Robertson who had otherwise unremarkable careers, this updated edition features new chapters devoted to Dallas Braden, Mark Buehrle, and Roy Halladay, the three latest pitchers to throw a perfect game, and a comprehensive appendix profiles several pitchers who almost achieved perfection.