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Title: Pitching in a Pinch
or, Baseball from the Inside

Author: Christy Mathewson

Commentator: John N. Wheeler

Release Date: July 30, 2010 [EBook #33291]

Language: English

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PITCHING IN A PINCH

[Illustration: Christy Mathewson

Copyright by L. Van Oeyen, Cleveland, Ohio]

PITCHING IN A PINCH

OR BASEBALL FROM THE INSIDE

BY CHRISTY MATHEWSON

WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY
JOHN N. WHEELER

ILLUSTRATED

GROSSET & DUNLAP
PUBLISHERS NEW YORK

Made in the United States of America

COPYRIGHT, 1912
BY CHRISTOPHER MATHEWSON

This edition is issued under arrangement with the publishers
G. P. PUTNAM'S SONS, NEW YORK AND LONDON

The Knickerbocker Press, New York

INTRODUCTION

Introducing a reader to Christy Mathewson seems like a superfluous piece
of writing and a waste of white paper. Schoolboys of the last ten years
have been acquainted with the exact figures which have made up Matty's
pitching record before they had ever heard of George Washington, because
George didn't play in the same League.

Perfectly good rational and normal citizens once deserted a reception to
the Governor of the State because Christy Mathewson was going to pitch
against the Chicago club. If the committee on arrangements wanted to make
the hour of the reception earlier, all right, but no one could be expected
to miss seeing Matty in the box against Chance and his Cubs for the sake
of greeting the Governor.

Besides being a national hero, Matty is one of the closest students of
baseball that ever came into the Big League. By players, he has long been
recognized as the greatest pitcher the game has produced. He has been
pitching in the Big Leagues for eleven years and winning games right
along.

His great pitching practically won t