Year of the Pitcher Year of the Pitcher

Year of the Pitcher

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

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The story of the remarkable 1968 baseball season. “Seldom does an era, and do sports personalities, come alive so vividly, and so unforgettably.” —The Boston Globe
 
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 30 games in 1968, a feat not achieved since 1934 and 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.
 
“Explores so much more than the battle between two pitchers and their teams . . . A fine history of a vital period in the history of not only baseball, but America.” —Kirkus Reviews 
 
“A compelling tale of all that America was in the turbulent year of 1968, told through a (mostly) baseball prism.” —New York Post

ジャンル
スポーツ/アウトドア
発売日
2017年
10月3日
言語
EN
英語
ページ数
413
ページ
発行者
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
販売元
OpenRoad Integrated Media, LLC
サイズ
17.7
MB

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