{"product_id":"pitching-in-a-pinch-baseball-from-the-inside-paperback-1","title":"Pitching in a Pinch: Baseball from the Inside - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eChristy Mathewson\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eEric Rolfe Greenberg\u003c\/b\u003e (Introduction by)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChristy 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003ePitching in a Pinch\u003c\/i\u003e, 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroducing this Bison Books edition is Eric Rolfe Greenberg, whose acclaimed novel The Celebrant (1993), also a Bison Book, portrays the immortal Christy Mathewson.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 320\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.89 x 8.14 x 6.3 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e November 26, 2002\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47451447820466,"sku":"9780803282124","price":32.4,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0770\/3891\/1666\/files\/107783f0eb621dcc82e099a38be6ec02.webp?v=1778794966","url":"https:\/\/box.dadyminds.org\/products\/pitching-in-a-pinch-baseball-from-the-inside-paperback-1","provider":"DADYMINDS BOX","version":"1.0","type":"link"}