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Title: Cy Young: A Baseball Life by Reed Browning ISBN: 1-55849-398-0 Publisher: University of Massachusetts Press Pub. Date: 01 May, 2003 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.43 (7 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Well-researched and well written
Comment: It is a sheer joy to read a baseball biography as carefully and authoritatively done as is this excellent book. Young was an admirable man and this book examines his life and career as fully and as interestingly as is I think possible. I don't think I have ever read a more carefully done baseball book, and while I first heard of the author when I read his excellent The War of Austrian Succession, I enjoyed this excellent book much. He has a book on the 1924 baseball season which, judging from the care taken with this book, would no doubt be a delight to read. I for one am grateful that a real historian has chosen to give us a book such as this biography: a most satifying and informative study of a great pitcher full of interesting facts about baseball during the years from 1890 to 1911.
Rating: 4
Summary: "Boring" book about an amazing "boring" pitcher
Comment: THis book really is pretty boring, I have been an ardent baseball fan for over 50 years.Denton T. Young was a very boring person.My definition of the word is steady, hardworking,solid as a rock and honest as the day is long.I am sick and tired of reading about the Sammy Sosa,s and Kobe Bryant scandals. Boring is really good.
THis is a fascinating book in many ways.The author does the best possible to illuminate the man AND the times, no easy thing to do with so little material.Young got up at 5am and went to bed at 9, his favorite summer "hobbies" were chopping wood and digging for coal in the coal rich soil near his home in a tiny burg in Ohio.Poorly educated and a very simple man, "Cy" just got it done.Time after time after time. 511 wins .
THis book is really best for serious fans for much of it is the tedium of schedules,managers,other personalites of the times, number of wins etc etc etc.FOrtunatly,the author does uncover and write well about a simple, honest,quiet, hard working man who happened to have a great bent for throwing pitches.What is really missing is what should have been the soul of the book.What was he really like as a pitcher?How did he approach various hitters, what was his favorite pitch, when did he rely on his curve etc etc.This is all missing in the tedium of statistics.
When "Pee Wee" Reese, of DOdgers fame died a few years ago, Bob Feller said, "They don,t make men any better than Pee Wee Reese.Surely the same can be said for Denton T. Young. Surely most managers of today would build a forest for this man off season if "all" he could do was win 22 games a year and not be a lush,steroid popper or whatever.We would not have been.
Rating: 5
Summary: the greatest pitcher in the history of baseball--CY YOUNG!!!
Comment: CY YOUNG IS BEYOND A SHADOW OF A DOUBT THE GREATEST PITCHER IN BASEBALL HISTORY!TO THINK THAT HIS HIGHEST SALARY WAS ONLY $5,000!
THE PITCHERS OF TODAY CANNOT HOLD A CANDLE TO THE GREAT MR.YOUNG.THE MAN PITCHED OVER 7,000 ININGS,WAS A FIVE TIME 30 GAME WINNER,HAD THREE NO HITTERS,PICCHED 77 SHUTOUTS AND WAS STILL CHOPING WOOD AT 80 YEARS OF AGE.I AM PROUD TO OWN AN ORIGINAL CY YOUNG AUTOGRAPH,IT IS ONE OF MY MOST TREASURED POSSESSIONS OF BASEBALL HISTORY.FINALLY IN THE YEAR 2000 A DIFINITIVE BIOGRAPHY OF DENTON TRUE YTOUNG WAS PUBLISHED.NOW EVERYONE WHO READS THIS GREAT BOOK WILL KNOW THAT THE PITCHERS OF TODAY ARE OVERPAID,NOT REALLY VERY GOOD AND IN TOTAL RESPECT OF THE MASTER OF THEM ALL CY YOUNG!!!!!!!I RECOMMEND THIS BOOK TO EVERYONE WHO RESPECTS REAL PITCHING GREATNESS-THE ONE THE ONLY CY YOUNG!!!!!!!
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Title: Walter Johnson: Baseball's Big Train by Henry W. Thomas ISBN: 0803294336 Publisher: University of Nebraska Press Pub. Date: 01 February, 1998 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: The Player: Christy Mathewson, Baseball, and the American Century by Philip M. Seib ISBN: 1568582684 Publisher: Four Walls Eight Windows Pub. Date: 10 August, 2003 List Price(USD): $24.00 |
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Title: Baseball's Greatest Season, 1924 by Reed Browning ISBN: 1558494065 Publisher: University of Massachusetts Press Pub. Date: 01 June, 2003 List Price(USD): $26.95 |
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Title: Matty: An American Hero : Christy Mathewson of the New York Giants by Ray Robinson ISBN: 0195092635 Publisher: Oxford University Press Pub. Date: 01 December, 1994 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
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Title: Damn Senators: My Grandfather and the Story of Washington's Only World Series Championship by Mark Gauvreau Judge ISBN: 1893554708 Publisher: Encounter Books Pub. Date: 01 March, 2003 List Price(USD): $25.95 |
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