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Title: Pitching in a Pinch

Author: Christy Mathewson

Narrator: Adams Morgan

Format: Unabridged

Length: 5 hrs 46 mins

Language: English

Release date: 2007-01-01

Publisher: Blackstone Audiobooks

Genres: Biography & Memoir, Sports

Publisher's Summary:

Pitching in a Pinch, originally published in 1912, is an insider's account of the world of baseball, 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, and spring training; and the importance of superstition to athletes. Matty, as he was called, makes the listener feel that tense moment when a player in a pinch must use his head.

One of baseball's more enduring classics and earliest memoirs....The book's continuing delight and value rests in Mathewson's facility for capturing-from the inside-the game's ethos in the early 20th century, and the generous combination of anecdote and insight with which he shares it.-Amazon.com