23,79 €
The Old Ball Game
The Old Ball Game
  • Išparduota
The Old Ball Game
The Old Ball Game
El. knyga:
23,79 €
The legendary NPR sports commentator and Sports Illustrated journalist retells the story of an unusual friendship between two towering figures in baseball history.At the turn of the twentieth century, Christy Mathewson was one of baseball's first superstars. Over six feet tall, clean cut, and college educated, he didn't pitch on the Sabbath and rarely spoke an ill word about anyone. He also had one of the most devastating arms in all of baseball. New York Giants manager John McGraw, by contrast…
  • Leidėjas:
  • Metai: 2018
  • Puslapiai: 256
  • ISBN: 9781555846275
  • ISBN-10: 1555846270
  • ISBN-13: 9781555846275
  • Formatas: ePub
  • Kalba: Anglų

The Old Ball Game (el. knyga) (skaityta knyga) | Frank Deford | knygos.lt

Atsiliepimai

(4.03 Goodreads įvertinimas)

Aprašymas

The legendary NPR sports commentator and Sports Illustrated journalist retells the story of an unusual friendship between two towering figures in baseball history.

At the turn of the twentieth century, Christy Mathewson was one of baseball's first superstars. Over six feet tall, clean cut, and college educated, he didn't pitch on the Sabbath and rarely spoke an ill word about anyone. He also had one of the most devastating arms in all of baseball. New York Giants manager John McGraw, by contrast, was ferocious. The pugnacious tough guy was already a star infielder who, with the Baltimore Orioles, helped develop a new, scrappy style of baseball, with plays like the hit-and-run, the Baltimore chop, and the squeeze play. When McGraw joined the Giants in 1902, the Giants were coming off their worst season ever. Yet within three years, Mathewson clinched New York City's first World Series for McGraw's team by throwing three straight shutouts in only six days, an incredible feat that is invariably called the greatest World Series performance ever. Because of their wonderful odd-couple association, baseball had its first superstar, the Giants ascended into legend, and baseball as a national pastime bloomed.

"A fine baseball book but just as fine a study of American popular culture." --Booklist, starred review
23,79 €
Prisijunkite ir už šią prekę
gausite
0,24 Knygų Eurų! ?

Elektroninė knyga:
Atsiuntimas po užsakymo akimirksniu! Skirta skaitymui tik kompiuteryje, planšetėje ar kitame elektroniniame įrenginyje.

Mažiausia kaina per 30 dienų: 23,79 €

Mažiausia kaina užfiksuota: Kaina nesikeitė

  • Autorius: Frank Deford
  • Leidėjas:
  • Metai: 2018
  • Puslapiai: 256
  • ISBN: 9781555846275
  • ISBN-10: 1555846270
  • ISBN-13: 9781555846275
  • Formatas: ePub
  • Kalba: Anglų Anglų

The legendary NPR sports commentator and Sports Illustrated journalist retells the story of an unusual friendship between two towering figures in baseball history.

At the turn of the twentieth century, Christy Mathewson was one of baseball's first superstars. Over six feet tall, clean cut, and college educated, he didn't pitch on the Sabbath and rarely spoke an ill word about anyone. He also had one of the most devastating arms in all of baseball. New York Giants manager John McGraw, by contrast, was ferocious. The pugnacious tough guy was already a star infielder who, with the Baltimore Orioles, helped develop a new, scrappy style of baseball, with plays like the hit-and-run, the Baltimore chop, and the squeeze play. When McGraw joined the Giants in 1902, the Giants were coming off their worst season ever. Yet within three years, Mathewson clinched New York City's first World Series for McGraw's team by throwing three straight shutouts in only six days, an incredible feat that is invariably called the greatest World Series performance ever. Because of their wonderful odd-couple association, baseball had its first superstar, the Giants ascended into legend, and baseball as a national pastime bloomed.

"A fine baseball book but just as fine a study of American popular culture." --Booklist, starred review

Atsiliepimai

  • Atsiliepimų nėra
0 pirkėjai įvertino šią prekę.
5
0%
4
0%
3
0%
2
0%
1
0%
(rodomas nebus)