An inside baseball memoir from the game’s first superstar, with a foreword by Chad Harbach Christy 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. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

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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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I -The Most Dangerous Batters I Have MetII - "Take Him Out"III - Pitching in a PinchIV - Big League Pitchers and Their PeculiaritiesV - Playing the Game from the BenchVI - Coaching Good and BadVII - Honest and Dishonest Sign StealingVIII - Umpires and Close DecisionsIX - The Game that Cost a PennantX - When the Teams Are in Spring TrainingXI - Jinxes and What They Mean to a Ball-PlayerXII - Base Runners and How They Help a Pitcher to WinXIII - Notable Instances Where the "Inside" Game Has Failed

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It's difficult to think of an athlete today as universally beloved as a player and respected as a person as Christy Mathewson was nearly a century ago. Mathewson was, by all accounts, the finest pitcher of the first decade of the 20th century, and is widely considered one of the brightest and most interesting baseball thinkers of any era.    Mathewson's Pitching in a Pinch was an instant hit when first published a century ago. For boys of that generation it was cultural currency like the Harry Potter stories are for kids today: every boy had read it, everyone knew Matty's stories, and everyone could quote his lines about courage, leadership, and teamwork by heart. The Boy Scouts of America issued a special edition for its members. If you were a boy a century ago, you probably loved Matty, and you definitely had read his book.     And today it's not hard to understand why. Pitching in a Pinch is a wonder: Mathewson weaves together strands including how-to advice on strategy and techniques for playing the game, funny stories about the other stars of his day, and his approach to winning on the field and off.     From the Introduction by John N. Wheeler:    "Besides being a national hero, Matty is one of the closest students of baseball that ever came into the Big League. By players, he has long been recognized as the greatest pitcher the game has produced. . .In this book he is telling the reader of the game as it is played in the Big Leagues. It's as good as his pitching. . ."

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Pitching in a Pinch: Baseball from the Inside (Penguin Classics)

Pitching in a Pinch

Pitching in a Pinch: or Baseball from the Inside

Pitching in a Pinch: Or, Baseball from the Inside

Pitching in a Pinch: Or, Baseball From the Inside

Pitching in a Pinch

Pitching in a Pinch: Or, Baseball From the Inside

Pitcher Pollock

Pitching In A Pinch: Or, Baseball From The Inside

Pitching in a Pinch: Or, Baseball From the Inside