Year of the Pitcher: Bob Gibson, Denny McLain and the End of Baseball's Golden Age

Sridhar Pappu (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

416 Seiten

2018
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company (Verlag)
978-1-328-55728-5 (ISBN)

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In 1968, two remarkable pitchers would dominate the game as well as the broadsheets. One was black, the other white. Bob Gibson, together with the St. Louis Cardinals, embodied an entire generation's hope for integration at a heated moment in American history. Denny McLain, his adversary, was a crass self-promoter who eschewed the team charter and his Detroit Tigers teammates to zip cross-country in his own plane. For one season, the nation watched as these two men and their teams swept their respective league championships to meet at the World Series. Gibson set a major league record that year with a 1.12 ERA. McLain won more than thirty games in 1968, a feat that hadn't been achieved since 1934 and has been untouched since. Together, the two have come to stand as iconic symbols, giving the fans "The Year of the Pitcher" and changing the game. Evoking a nostalgic season and its incredible characters, this is the story of one of the great rivalries in sports, and an indelible portrait of the national pastime during a turbulent year - and the two men who electrified fans from all walks of life. AUTHOR: Sridhar Pappu writes "The Male Animal" column forthe New York Times. He began his award-winning career as a feature writer for the Chicago Reader and has served as a columnist at The New York Observer and as a correspondent for The Atlantic. In addition he worked as a staff writer at Sports Illustrated and The Washington Post. A native of Oxford, Ohio, and graduate of Northwestern University, he currently lives in Brooklyn.

SRIDHAR PAPPU is "The Male Animal" columnist for the New York Times. He began his award-winning career as a feature writer for the Chicago Reader and has served as a columnist at the New York Observer, a correspondent for the Atlantic, and as a staff writer at the Washington Post and Sports Illustrated.

Erscheinungsdatum	12.09.2018
Zusatzinfo	Illustrations
Verlagsort	Boston
Sprache	englisch
Maße	135 x 203 mm
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Sport ► Ballsport
Themenwelt	Weitere Fachgebiete ► Sportwissenschaft
ISBN-10	1-328-55728-6 / 1328557286
ISBN-13	978-1-328-55728-5 / 9781328557285
Zustand	Neuware