The Greatest Game Ever Pitched - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Greatest Game Ever Pitched write by Jim Kaplan. This book was released on 2013-04. The Greatest Game Ever Pitched available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "The Braves' Spahn and the Giants' Marichal began their duel in San Francisco's cold and windy Candlestick Park. Four hours later, the two pitching legends were deadlocked in a scoreless tie when Willie Mays 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"--Publisher marketing.
Hard-Luck Harvey Haddix and the Greatest Game Ever Lost
Hard-Luck Harvey Haddix and the Greatest Game Ever Lost - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Hard-Luck Harvey Haddix and the Greatest Game Ever Lost write by Lew Freedman. This book was released on 2009-09-12. Hard-Luck Harvey Haddix and the Greatest Game Ever Lost available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. He pitched a baseball game that was more than perfect, and yet he lost. Southpaw Harvey Haddix had logged a solid but unspectacular career by the time he took the mound on May 26, 1959. Facing the Milwaukee Braves, he set down the first 36 batters in a row, or 12 innings' worth--a perfect game three innings longer than the norm. But his Pittsburgh Pirates couldn't score, either, and Haddix lost in the 13th inning on a controversial play. This book recounts Haddix's one-of-a-kind performance and describes the official decisions that changed the historical record.
"The Greatest Game Ever Played in Dixie"
"The Greatest Game Ever Played in Dixie" - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook "The Greatest Game Ever Played in Dixie" write by John A. Simpson. This book was released on 2007-08-06. "The Greatest Game Ever Played in Dixie" available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In 1908 baseball was the only game that mattered in the South. With no major league team in the region, rivalries between Southern Association cities such as Atlanta, Birmingham, Memphis, and New Orleans were heated. This season, however, no city was as baseball-crazed as Nashville, whose Vols had been league doormat in 1907. After an unpromising start, the Nashville club clawed its way into contention during the month of July, rising into the upper division, then into a battle for first. Local interest intensified, as the competitive fire of Nashville fans was stoked by sharp-tongued columnist Grantland Rice and the city's three daily newspapers. By the time the Vols met the New Orleans Pelicans for a season-ending series, and the championship, the city was gripped by a pennant fever that shut down the commercial district. Nearly 13,000 people thronged the Nashville ballpark, Sulphur Dell, for the third and deciding contest. What they saw was described by Rice as "the greatest game ever played in Dixie."
The Greatest Game Ever Pitched
The Greatest Game Ever Pitched - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Greatest Game Ever Pitched write by Heritage Center of Clark County (Ohio). This book was released on 2009. The Greatest Game Ever Pitched available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "The May 26, 1959, game between the Milwaukee Braves and the Pittsburgh Pirates saw Harvey Haddix pitch 12 perfect innings only to lose in a controversial decision in the 13th"--Provided by publisher.
The Baseball Codes
The Baseball Codes - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Baseball Codes write by Jason Turbow. This book was released on 2011-03-22. The Baseball Codes available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. An insider’s look at baseball’s unwritten rules, explained with examples from the game’s most fascinating characters and wildest historical moments. Everyone knows that baseball is a game of intricate regulations, but it turns out to be even more complicated than we realize. All aspects of baseball—hitting, pitching, and baserunning—are affected by the Code, a set of unwritten rules that governs the Major League game. Some of these rules are openly discussed (don’t steal a base with a big lead late in the game), while others are known only to a minority of players (don’t cross between the catcher and the pitcher on the way to the batter’s box). In The Baseball Codes, old-timers and all-time greats share their insights into the game’s most hallowed—and least known—traditions. For the learned and the casual baseball fan alike, the result is illuminating and thoroughly entertaining. At the heart of this book are incredible and often hilarious stories involving national heroes (like Mickey Mantle and Willie Mays) and notorious headhunters (like Bob Gibson and Don Drysdale) in a century-long series of confrontations over respect, honor, and the soul of the game. With The Baseball Codes, we see for the first time the game as it’s actually played, through the eyes of the players on the field. With rollicking stories from the past and new perspectives on baseball’s informal rulebook, The Baseball Codes is a must for every fan.
