Description: From the publisherIn The Old Ball Game, America's most beloved sportswriter, FrankDeford, masterfully chronicles how a friendship between two toweringfigures in baseball helped make the sport a national pastime. At theturn of the twentieth century, every American man wanted to be ChristyMathewson. One of baseball's first superstars, he was clean-cut, didn'tpitch on the Sabbath, and rarely spoke a negative word about anyone. Healso had one of the most devastating arms in all of baseball. New YorkGiants manager John McGraw, by contrast, was ferocious. Nicknamed "theLittle Napoleon," the pugnacious tough guy had been a star baseballplayer who helped develop the hit-and-run. When McGraw joined theGiants in 1902, the team was coming off its worst season ever. Yetwithin three years, Mathewson clinched New York City's first WorldSeries title by throwing three straight shutouts over six days, anincredible feat that is often called the greatest World Seriesperformance ever. Frank Deford, a senior contributing writer at SportsIllustrated and weekly commentator on NPR's Morning Edition, recountsthe rise of baseball's first superstar, the Giants' ascent into legend,and the sport's transformation into a national obsession.
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Signed By: Frank Deford
Book Title: Old Ball Game : How John McGraw, Christy Mathewson, and the New Y
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Narrative Type: Nonfiction
Original Language: English
Publisher: GROVE/Atlantic, Incorporated
Item Length: 9 in
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Edition: First Edition
Publication Year: 2005
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Item Height: 1 in
Personalized: Yes
Author: Frank Deford
Features: Dust Jacket
Genre: Sports & Recreation
Country/Region of Manufacture: United States
Topic: Baseball / History, Baseball / General
Item Weight: 18 Oz
Item Width: 6 in
Number of Pages: 240 Pages
