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Title : |
Matty An American Hero |
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| Author : |
Ray Robinson |
| Subject : |
Christy Mathewson Baseball |
| Copyright : |
1993 |
| Cover : |
Hardcover |
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| Synopsis : |
In Matty, Ray Robinson tells the story of a man who became America's first authentic sports hero. Until Mathewson, Robinson reveals, Americans loved baseball but looked down on ballplayers and other athletes as hard-drinking, skirt-chasing ne'er-do-wells. Deprived of real-life role models, millions of readers followed the serialized exploits of Frank Merriwell, a fictional hero who excelled at sports from baseball to billiards and never drank, smoke or swore. Robinson shows how an eager public greeted Mathewson as a flesh-and-blood version of Merriwell from his first year at Bucknell University, where he shone as a star pitcher, premier field-goal kicker, and class president. Lured into the big leagues before graduating, the tall, handsome pitcher soon won over men, women and children with his sense of fair play and his arsenal of blazing fastballs, sweeping curves, and infamously deceptive fadeaway pitches. Robinson skillfully details the highlights of the career of America's first Hall of Fame pitcher, including his showdowns against the great batters of his day and his encounters with the young Brooklyn, Pittsburgh, Chicago and St. Louis teams. Here are the six remarkable days in October 1905 when mathewson became the only pitcher ever to hurl three straight shutouts in a World Series, and the afternoon at West Point when he won $50 in a bet that he could throw 20 of his best pitches to exactly the same spot. |
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