The Greatest Game Ever Pitched (PDF)
Juan Marichal, Warren Spahn and the Pitching Duel of the Century
(Sprache: Englisch)
Even before their epic pitching duel, Juan Marichal and Warren Spahn already had a lot in common. Future Hall of Famers with high-kicking deliveries, they were shaped into winners by character-building experiences in the military. Spahn had been baseball's...
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Even before their epic pitching duel, Juan Marichal and Warren Spahn already had a lot in common. Future Hall of Famers with high-kicking deliveries, they were shaped into winners by character-building experiences in the military. Spahn had been baseball's winningest pitcher in the 1950s, and Marichal would be equally dominant in the 1960s. Marichal's and Spahn's incredible performances on July 2, 1963, would forever link their names together in baseball history. The Braves' Spahn and the Giants' Marichal began their duel at 8:21 PM in San Francisco's cold and windy Candlestick Park. Four hours later, at 12:30 AM the two pitching legends were deadlocked in a scoreless tie when Willie Mays, with one out and no one on, hit a walk-off home run to end the greatest game ever pitched. In between, Marichal and Spahn each threw more than 200 pitches and went 16 innings without relief. Considering today's culture of pitch counts and coddled arms, it was a night we won't see repeated ever again. In The Greatest Game Ever Pitched, author Jim Kaplan weaves the 1963 contest through a dual biography of its principals in a book that is sure to be a home run with baseball fans everywhere.
Autoren-Porträt von JIM KAPLAN
Jim Kaplan is the author of 19 books, including 13 on baseball. Called the "poet laureate" of fielding by George Will, Kaplan has written two books on the subject, as well as histories of the Red Sox, Yankees, and Giants, an appreciation of Casey Stengel (with Ira Berkow), and a biography of Hall of Fame pitcher Lefty Grove. Kaplan graduated from Yale with a B.A. in history and earned a Master's from Northwestern's Medill School of Journalism. After three years of covering sports for the Minneapolis Star, he spent 16 years at Sports Illustrated then turned to freelance writing. Also a bridge columnist and teacher, Kaplan divides his time between Northampton and Oak Bluffs, Massachusetts, with his wife, poet and journalist Brooks Robards.
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- Autor: JIM KAPLAN
- 2011, Englisch
- ISBN-10: 1617494887
- ISBN-13: 9781617494888
- Erscheinungsdatum: 01.02.2011
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