About this title: Pitchers are at the heart of baseball. Each has the potential to make his team a winner or, very quickly, a loser. The pressure is huge. In the end, only those with both the arm and the heart and the ability to manage extraordinary stress will emerge as champions. John Feinstein looks into this complex side of the game through the events of one nerve-racking season and through the eyes of two great pitchers trying to perform at the highest possible level in the twilight of their careers in the biggest media fishbowl in America. Tom Glavine and Mike Mussina have seen it all in the Major ...
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Little, Brown and Company
Date Published: 2008-05-01
ISBN-13:9780316113915ISBN:0316113913
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Description: Like New. 2008-Hardcover-May contain minor shelf-wear. Otherwise, volume un-read and in "As-New" condition. -Used-Like New-Hall Street Books proudly ships from Brooklyn, NY. All orders are processed and shipped within 24 hours, M-F. 100% money back No-Worry guarantee with expedited delivery and delivery confirmation available. read more
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Little Brown & Co, New York, New York, U.S.A.
Date Published: 2008
ISBN-13:9780316113915ISBN:0316113913
Description: Keith Hayes (Jacket Design) Near Fine in Very Good jacket. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. 525 pages with index; First printing; Color photographs; Textblock is tight with no internal markings; Boards are black with the title in silver; Bright pictorial dust-jacket with modest shelf and edge wear including a 1/4 inch slit to the top right of the spine; We have placed the dust-jacket in a protective, removable mylar cover; ....(Pitchers are at the heart of baseball, and they have the potential to make ... read more
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Back Bay Books
Date Published: 2009-05-11
ISBN-13:9780316113922ISBN:0316113921
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Binding: book Hardcover
Publisher: Little Brown & Co
Date Published: 2008
ISBN-13:9780316113915ISBN:0316113913
Description: Brand New. Brand new. Never read or owned. May have a remainder mark. 525 pages. 9.80 x 6.80 x 1.80 in. 28.8 oz. Traces the career-defining achievements of talented baseball pitchers Tom Glavine and Mike Mussina during the 2007 season, documenting how their respective efforts reflected the high-pressure World Series-pursuing endeavors of the Mets and Yankees. Portions of this page Copyright 1995-2009 Muze Inc. John Feinstein's double sports biography covers the 2007 seasons of aging pitchers ... read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Little Brown & Co
Date Published: 2008-05-01
ISBN-13:9780316113915ISBN:0316113913
Description: NEW. Hardcover. From an inventory that is 100% brand-new, 100% direct from the publishers' distribution channel. We carry NO pre-owned, NO remaindered. We pack in CARDBOARD to ensure the pristine quality is maintained. (Bubble-wrap alone is NOT sufficient to protect from USPS equipment. ) Guaranteed brand-NEW, protected with CARDBOARD, your satisfaction is guaranteed. BKLUVID: 9780316113915. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Little, Brown and Company
Date Published: 2008
ISBN-13:9780316113915ISBN:0316113913
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"Good but not great. I loved Feinstein's 'A Season on the Brink' about Bobby Night and the Indiana Hoosiers in the 1980s. However, his current offering goes back and forth between a book written for the baseball addict - someone who knows the game and doesn't need to be told that Alex Rodriguez is a very good player - and the newcomer - someone that needs to be told that Tony LaRussa is a good manager. And to make matters worse he, as he so often does in interviews, lets his own opinion cloud his writing. He often makes snide remarks about the corporate names of ballparks, that he hates day-night doubleheaders and that he has a disdain for Barry Bonds. He is at his best when he simply talks about Mussina and Glavine's approach to pitching and the daily routine and ups and downs of pitching in the majors."
"An interesting and highly detailed look at the world of Major League Baseball - not one of Feinstein's best, but enjoyable nonetheless. Both Glavine and Mussina are intelligent men with strong characters whom Feinstein delineates with great care. The education in pitching is excellent, although Feinstein's obvious bias against expansion teams should have been edited out. (Go Rays!)
Long but well worth recommending to baseball fans....."
"inside stuff on two modern day pitching legends. Mike Mussina of the Yankees and Tom Glavine of then of the Mets. Feinstein style always gives a reader some good inside stuff on the sport he writes"
"Vintage Feinstein, getting two of the best pitchers of the past 20 years to bring him into their worlds. While it was a lot of information to process (pitch-by-pitch accounts of games are a bit much, even for a sports nut like me), it was very insightful and I learned a lot about pitching that I didn't know before. Not that it would help my glass arm."
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