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Title: Matty: An American Hero: Christy Mathewson of the New York Giants by Ray Robinson ISBN: 0-19-509263-5 Publisher: Oxford University Press Pub. Date: December, 1994 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3 (2 reviews)
Rating: 3
Summary: Wonderful but not memorable
Comment: Ray Robinson does a fine job depicting one of baseball's greatest pitchers from Christy's grand beginnings to his unfortunate plight in the end. The book gives a fair amount of detail about the game's first national idol but lacks punch because of the mostly serene nature of "BIG 6's" life. To the extent that the book is kind of fluffy for its depiction of a man who is nearly perfect-save for incidences like his punching a vendor during a melee-it is almost Rockyesque in that one cannot help but wish they were a personal friend of Christy.It is currently the best I've read on the perfector of the fadeaway.
Rating: 3
Summary: Please don't just fadeaway...
Comment: This is the best effort by Ray Robinson to date. The book starts off slowly but eventually picks up steam. Robinson effectively captures the era but really does not give you an awful lot more. Christy Mathewson was one of the best pitchers ever in my opinion (based on my research). I just wish that Ray Robinson could have confirmed it with the decisiveness one would come to expect from a seasoned author. Instead, I was left to wonder why certain facts were omitted and why he did not do more to make Matty an American Hero. A few more efforts like this and Christy Mathewson and others of his era will emulate his trademark pitch...Fadeaway! Anthony DeMedeiros, Toronto, Ontario
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Title: Pitching in a Pinch or Baseball from the Inside by Christy Mathewson, Eric Rolfe Greenberg ISBN: 0803282125 Publisher: Univ of Nebraska Pr Pub. Date: November, 2002 List Price(USD): $30.00 |
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Title: Cy Young: A Baseball Life by Reed Browning ISBN: 1558493980 Publisher: Univ. of Massachusetts Press Pub. Date: May, 2003 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: Slide, Kelly, Slide: The Wild Life and Times of Mike "King" Kelly, Baseball's First Superstar by Martin Appel, Marty Appel, Lawrence S. Ritter ISBN: 1578860032 Publisher: Scarecrown Pr (Trade) Pub. Date: 01 March, 1999 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: Hal Chase: The Defiant Life and Turbulent Times of Baseball's Biggest Crook by Martin Donell Kohout ISBN: 0786410671 Publisher: McFarland & Company Pub. Date: September, 2001 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
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Title: The World Series: An Illustrated Encyclopedia of the Fall Classic by Josh Leventhal ISBN: 157912206X Publisher: Black Dog & Leventhal Pub Pub. Date: October, 2001 List Price(USD): $29.98 |
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