An inside baseball memoir from the game’s 1st superstar

Christy Mathewson was one of the most prominent pitchers ever to try out football. Posthumously inducted into the Football Hall of Fame among the “Five Immortals,” he was an unstoppable force on the mound, earning at least twenty-two video games for twelve right months and pitching three complete-game shutouts in the 1905 Globe Series. Pitching within a Pinch, his witty and digestible reserve of football insights, tales, and wisdom, was first published over a hundred years back and presents visitors with Mathewson’s plainspoken perspective on the gemstone of yore-on the players, the chances they required, the jinxes they thought in, and, most of all, their like of the game. Football fans will love to read first-hand accounts of the infamous Merkle’s Boner occurrence, Giants manager John McGraw, as well as the unstoppable Johnny Evers and to understand how much-and precisely how little-has actually changed in 100 years.