Death in the Strike Zone: The Mystery of America's First Baseball Hero - Hardcover
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Language:EnglishPublisher:David R. Godine PublisherISBN-13:9781567927597ISBN-10:1567927599UPC:9781567927597Book Category:Sports & Recreation, Biography & AutobiographyBook Subcategory:Baseball, Historical, SportsBook Topic:HistorySize:9.00 x 6.00 x 1.10 inchesWeight:0.9304Product ID:SC7GXQV8QS
Death in the Strike Zone: The Mystery of America's First Baseball Hero
He threw the first fastball. The first curveball. He was baseball's first star--and its first tragedy.
In Death in the Strike Zone, acclaimed historian Thomas W. Gilbert uncovers the forgotten life of James Creighton, the first American ballplayer to become a national sensation. On the eve of the Civil War, Creighton invented something utterly new in baseball - modern pitching. Creighton was so...Language:EnglishPublisher:David R. Godine PublisherISBN-13:9781567927597ISBN-10:1567927599UPC:9781567927597Book Category:Sports & Recreation, Biography & AutobiographyBook Subcategory:Baseball, Historical, SportsBook Topic:HistorySize:9.00 x 6.00 x 1.10 inchesWeight:0.9304Product ID:SC7GXQV8QS
Thomas W. Gilbert is the author of How Baseball Happened: Outrageous Lies Exposed! The True Story Revealed (winner of the Casey Award for Best Baseball Book of the Year) and many other books, including Baseball and the Color Line, Roberto Clemente, and Playing First. From his Greenpoint, Brooklyn, stoop he can throw a baseball to the former site of the Manor House tavern, where members of the...
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