Pitching in a Pinch, Christy Mathewson
Pitching in a Pinch, Christy Mathewson
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Pitching in a Pinch
Baseball from the Inside

Author: Christy Mathewson

Narrator: Kyle Tait

Unabridged: 6 hr 2 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Spoken Realms

Published: 08/20/2019

Synopsis

An inside baseball memoir from the game’s first superstarChristy Mathewson was one of the most dominant pitchers ever to play baseball. Posthumously inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame as one of the “Five Immortals,” he was an unstoppable force on the mound, winning at least twenty-two games for twelve straight seasons and pitching three complete-game shutouts in the 1905 World Series. Pitching in a Pinch, his witty and digestible book of baseball insights, stories, and wisdom, was first published over a hundred years ago and presents readers with Mathewson’s plainspoken perspective on the diamond of yore—on the players, the chances they took, the jinxes they believed in, and, most of all, their love of the game. Baseball fans will love to read first-hand accounts of the infamous Merkle’s Boner incident, Giants manager John McGraw, and the unstoppable Johnny Evers and to learn how much—and just how little—has really changed in a hundred years.

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.

About Kyle Tait

Kyle Tait is a professionally trained voice actor and narrator in Atlanta, Georgia. His first brush with a microphone came in sports radio, calling baseball in the Atlanta Braves' organization. To pass the time in the off-season, he started voicing audiobooks, and a few years later he left baseball and went into narration full-time. Now his voice can be heard on a variety of audiobook and corporate voice-over outlets worldwide. When not in the studio, Tait can still be found moonlighting in the sports world, calling football, basketball, baseball, and softball on a variety of TV and radio outlets. He's also a studio host with IMG College, anchoring football and basketball broadcasts for schools like TCU, UConn, and Arizona.

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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