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Pitching in a Pinch

Pitching Pinch

October 29, 2013

The entry on Christy Mathewson’s Pitching in a Pinch was quite popular so I thought I’d add some more info as provided by Mark Aubrey. You can read it online or download a copy in several formats (including for the Kindle) from Archive.org. Those interesting in hearing the book have a couple of options. You […]

Tagged as: Christy Mathewson, Pitching in a Pinch, Ring Lardner, Zane Grey

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Mathewson still ‘pitching’ for baseball literacy

October 28, 2013 · 1 comment

The New Yorker posted this interesting piece on “Christy Mathewson and the Thinking Man’s Game” (although in the body of the article, it does refer to the more PC “thinking person”). The article by Luke Epplin refers to several books, including Mathewson’s “memoir,” Pitching in a Pinch: Baseball from the Inside — recently re-released by […]

Tagged as: Christy Mathewson, George F. Will, Lawrence Ritter, Men at Work, Pitching in a Pinch, The Glory of Their Times

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