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"Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore?"
- Henry Ward Beecher
(1813 - 1887)
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ZIN Product Number: 10031955
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| | | |  | | | Product Details
 Format: Paperback, 336 pages
Edition: 1 HARVEST
Publisher: Harcourt, Inc
ISBN: 0156013045
Release Date: Jan 4, 1987
| |  | | | In Brief
Baseball's most celebrated chronicler on the history and evolution of the greatest mental and physical duel in sports-between the picture and the batter.
| | | | From The Publisher
An opinionated account of the evolution of baseball's central event, by baseball's most celebrated chronicler.
Beyond the techniques and training, baseball is essentially a pitcher and a batter and the psychological battle between them-the head game. Here for the first time is the story of that battle and the people who changed the course of baseball by throwing one. Roger Kahn investigates not only grips, speeds, and tactics, but also knowledge, maturity, and competitive fire.
With the help of some of baseball's greatest pitchers and pitching minds-from Christy Mathewson, Don Drysdale, Bob Gibson, and Bruce Sutter to today's reigning pitching coach, Leo Mazzone-as well as his own deep knowledge of the game, Roger Kahn speaks with authority, and with the authorities, bringing new light to baseball's most pivotal contest. His acute sense of how people make history makes The Head Game a delightful and enlightening tour of baseball through the pitcher's eyes.
This is the kind of baseball book real fans love - full of history, great stories and characters, and opinions - a real insiders view of the game's most fundamental act. Beautifully illustrated with drawings by acclaimed Hall of Fame artist Murray Tinkelman.
About the Author:
Roger Kahn, renowned as the author of the award-winning bestseller The Boys of Summer, is the author of sixteen books whose subjects range from baseball to political activism. Born in Brooklyn, he now lives in Croton-on-Hudson, New York.
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Roger Kahn reveals something new about the most important part of the game. In The Head Game he puts a fresh and original twist on the battle between the pitcher and the hitter, and I thoroughly enjoyed it. —Tim McCarver
| |  | | | | Prologue: Casting the First Baseball | xiii | | Book 1 | Pitching in a Pinch | 1 | | 1. | "The Hell It Don't Curve" | 3 | | 2. | From Creag to Baseball | 29 | | 3. | The Prince of Twirlers | 47 | | 4. | Cy Young, Ticket Salesman | 73 | | 5. | Mathewson Comes of Age | 87 | | 6. | The Righthander from Olympus | 113 | | Book 2 | Modern Times | 141 | | 7. | Pitching Goes Out to Lunch | 143 | | 8. | Spahnie | 159 | | 9. | The Professor | 181 | | 10. | The Collie That Worked Like a Doberman | 203 | | 11. | A Bullpen Named Bruce | 241 | | 12. | Two Armed Men | 259 | | 13. | The Pope of Pitching | 277 | | A Golden Dozen: A Listing of Armed Men | 303 | | Bibliography | 307 | | Acknowledgments | 309 |
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