Pitching in a Pinch: Baseball from the Inside

Christy Mathewson was one of the most dominant pitchers ever to play baseball. Posthumously inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame's first class of the 'Five Immortals,' he was an unstoppable force on the mound, winning at least twenty-two games for twelve straight seasons and pitching three complete-game shutouts in the 1905 World Series. Pitching in a Pinch, his witty and influential book of baseball insights, stories, and wisdom, was first published more than a hundred years ago, during the deadball era. It presents readers with Mathewson's plain-spoken perspective on the diamond of yore—on the players, their squabbles and alliances, the jinxes they believed in, and, most of all, their love of the game. Baseball fans will revel in firsthand accounts of the infamous Merkle's Boner incident, the masterful Giants manager John McGraw, and the tenacious Johnny Evers. A true celebration of the game, Pitching in a Pinch is a testament to how much-and just how little-has really changed since the beginning of baseball's modern era.

'Matty was the master of them all.' Christy Mathewson's Baseball Hall of Fame plaque

'[Mathewson] gripped the imagination of a country that held a hundred million people and held his grip with a firmer hold than any man of his day of time.' Grantland Rice, legendary sportswriter and journalist