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Focusing on the unusual friendship between John McGraw and Christy Mathewson, "The Old Ball Game" is a masterful chronicle of the early days of baseball from America's most beloved sportswriter. Illustrations throughout.
Book Synopsis The Old Ball Game by : Frank Deford
Download or read book The Old Ball Game written by Frank Deford and published by Grove Press. This book was released on 2006-03-02 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focusing on the unusual friendship between John McGraw and Christy Mathewson, "The Old Ball Game" is a masterful chronicle of the early days of baseball from America's most beloved sportswriter. Illustrations throughout.
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
Book Synopsis The Old Ball Game by : Frank Deford
Download or read book The Old Ball Game written by Frank Deford and published by Open Road + Grove/Atlantic. This book was released on 2007-12-01 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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
A school, sports, and friendship story perfect for fans of Mike Lupica's Comeback Kids.
Book Synopsis A Whole New Ballgame by : Phil Bildner
Download or read book A Whole New Ballgame written by Phil Bildner and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2015-08-18 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A school, sports, and friendship story perfect for fans of Mike Lupica's Comeback Kids.
On deck and ready for your reading lineup, New York Times bestselling author-illustrator Brian Lies’s ode to “batty” baseball fans. You think humans are the only ones who enjoy America’s national pastime? Grab your bat—the other kind—and your mitt, because it’s a whole new ballgame when evening falls and bats come fluttering from the rafters to watch their all-stars compete. Get set to be transported to the right-side-up and upside-down world of bats at play, as imagined and illustrated by bestselling author-illustrator Brian Lies. Hurry up! Come one—come all! We’re off to watch the bats play ball!
Book Synopsis Bats at the Ballgame by : Brian Lies
Download or read book Bats at the Ballgame written by Brian Lies and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2010-09-06 with total page 37 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On deck and ready for your reading lineup, New York Times bestselling author-illustrator Brian Lies’s ode to “batty” baseball fans. You think humans are the only ones who enjoy America’s national pastime? Grab your bat—the other kind—and your mitt, because it’s a whole new ballgame when evening falls and bats come fluttering from the rafters to watch their all-stars compete. Get set to be transported to the right-side-up and upside-down world of bats at play, as imagined and illustrated by bestselling author-illustrator Brian Lies. Hurry up! Come one—come all! We’re off to watch the bats play ball!
Book Synopsis There Goes The Old Ball Game by : Dick Poston
Download or read book There Goes The Old Ball Game written by Dick Poston and published by Pioneer Drama Service, Inc.. This book was released on 1974 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
The lyrics of the familiar song, with illustrations showing two baseball-mad girls enjoying a ballgame with their grandmother.
Book Synopsis Take Me Out to the Ball Game by : Maryann Kovalski
Download or read book Take Me Out to the Ball Game written by Maryann Kovalski and published by Markham, Ont. : Fitzhenry & Whiteside. This book was released on 2006 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The lyrics of the familiar song, with illustrations showing two baseball-mad girls enjoying a ballgame with their grandmother.
Download or read book The Old Ball Game written by Mark Alvarez and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Text and illustrations present the well-known song about baseball games.
Book Synopsis Take Me Out to the Ball Game by : Jack Norworth
Download or read book Take Me Out to the Ball Game written by Jack Norworth and published by Charlesbridge. This book was released on 2011-04-01 with total page 31 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Text and illustrations present the well-known song about baseball games.
Book Synopsis The Old Ball Game by : Tristram Potter Coffin
Download or read book The Old Ball Game written by Tristram Potter Coffin and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
An old ball park, with worn down patchy grass, wood benches, chained linked fences, torn up bases and broken lights. It's a story of the greatest game in the world: baseball. A group of boys get together at the ball park. Two teams Blue and Red come together play the game they love. The game is close. How will it end? Who will come out on top and be the hero?
Book Synopsis At the Old Ball Game by : Christina Helen Ann Kirilo
Download or read book At the Old Ball Game written by Christina Helen Ann Kirilo and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-05-24 with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An old ball park, with worn down patchy grass, wood benches, chained linked fences, torn up bases and broken lights. It's a story of the greatest game in the world: baseball. A group of boys get together at the ball park. Two teams Blue and Red come together play the game they love. The game is close. How will it end? Who will come out on top and be the hero?
