Pitching In A Pinch : Or, Baseball From The Inside

Christy Mathewson

• Publisher: Brunauer Press
• Year: 2011
• Print ISBN: 9781408691021
• eBook ISBN: 9781446547717

Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title
• Copyright
• Introduction
• Contents
• Half title
• I—The Most Dangerous Batters I have Met
• II—“Take Him Out!”
• III—Pitching in a Pinch
• IV—Big League Pitchers and their Peculiarities
• V—Playing the Game from the Bench
• VI—Coaching—Good and Bad
• VII—Honest and Dishonest Sign Stealing
• VIII—Umpires and Close Decisions
• IX—The Game that Cost a Pennant
• X—When the Teams Are in Spring Training
• XI—Jinxes and what they Mean to a Ball-Player
• XII—Base Runners and how they Help a Pitcher to Win
• XIII—Notable Instances where the “Inside” Game has Failed