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Pitching in a Pinch: Baseball from the Inside Paperback - 2002

by Christy Mathewson; Introduction by Eric Rolfe Greenberg


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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.

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  • Title Pitching in a Pinch: Baseball from the Inside
  • Author Christy Mathewson; Introduction by Eric Rolfe Greenberg
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition 1994 1st ed. thu
  • Pages 320
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher University of Nebraska Press
  • Date 2002-11-26
  • ISBN 9780803282124 / 0803282125
  • Weight 0.85 lbs (0.39 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.14 x 6.3 x 0.89 in (20.68 x 16.00 x 2.26 cm)
  • Ages 18 to UP years
  • Grade levels 13 - UP
  • Library of Congress subjects Baseball - United States - History, Pitching (Baseball)
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 93042716
  • Dewey Decimal Code 796.357

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Citations

  • Library Journal, 05/01/1994, Page 143

About the author

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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