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Cargando... Pitching in a Pinch, or, Baseball from the Inside (1912)por Christy Mathewson, John N. Wheeler
![]() Ninguno Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. ![]() ![]() It's interesting to read this more than 100 years after the fact. Mathewson was a huge star at the time, the idol of nearly every boy in the country. Also, it wasn't ghost written, he was one of the very few college educated baseball players at the time. Fun hearing him talk about the other players and teams in the vernacular of the day It saddens me greatly to give this book such a dismal review. This is a book that I had hoped to like much more than I actually did; however, I suppose you don't pick up expecting or hoping not to like it. Regardless, I found the book extremely difficult to get through. The book it considerably antiquated, the writing style somewhat inaccessible. There are some anecdotes that are mildly entertaining, it was interesting to learn that the game was played at a different level than it is currently - players beaned int he head unconscious and hospitalized for days return to the game without a thought. But over all its not a very compelling book and unbelievably difficult for me to get through. sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
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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. 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. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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