Pitching in a Pinch, Christy Mathewson
Pitching in a Pinch, Christy Mathewson
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Pitching in a Pinch

Author: Christy Mathewson

Narrator: Adams Morgan

Unabridged: 5 hr 44 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 01/01/2007

Synopsis

Pitching in a Pinch, originally published in 1912, is an insiders 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 bigleague pitchers; the good and bad of coaching, umpiring, signstealing, baserunning, 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.

About Christy Mathewson

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. Mathewson was the first national baseball superstar through his seventeen-year career in the major leagues, mostly with the New York Giants.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Trevor on April 08, 2022

This is a fun re-read for me, having come across this book a few years back and enjoying it while understanding that there are some limitations to it. This book is ostensibly by Christopher "Christy" Mathewson, though it's ghostwritten by a professional sportswriter. Mathewson, one of the greatest p......more

Goodreads review by Dustin on February 10, 2017

Loved this book. Mathewson's erudite descriptions of early 20th Century baseball are fascinating and insightful. His musings really bring to light how the game we watch today came to be. Also, the chapter that describes Pittsburgh as the fancy town full of rich society people, with all its industry m......more

Goodreads review by Spiros on March 29, 2013

' "Larry" Doyle thought that he had received the raw end of a decision at second base one day. He ran down to first, where Klem had retreated after he passed his judgment. "Say, 'Bill,'" exploded "Larry," "that man didn't touch the bag - didn't come within six feet of it." "Say, Doyle," replied Klem,......more

Goodreads review by Bfisher on July 11, 2015

In some ways, this was a painful book to read, due some stilted sports-reporter-isms, and the casual expressions of the bigotry and racism of the time and place To put it in context, it was published a few years before D.W. Griffith's "Birth of a Nation" was released. On the other hand, it does provi......more

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