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Listen to the full audiobook free with a 30-day trial at http://hotaudiobook.com/free/141871 Title: Pitching in a Pinch Author: Christy Mathewson Narrator: Adams Morgan Format: Unabridged Length: 5 hrs 46 mins Language: English Release date: 2007-01-01 Publisher: Blackstone Audiobooks Genres: Biography & Memoir, Sports Publisher's Summary: Pitching in a Pinch, originally published in 1912, is an insider's account of the world of baseball, blending anecdote, biography, instruction, and social history. It celebrates baseball as it was played in the first decade of the twentieth century by famous contemporaries like Honus Wagner and Rube Marquand, managers like John McGraw and Connie Mack, and many others. Always sensitive to psychology as well as technique, Mathewson describes the dangerous batters he faced; the peculiarities of big-league pitchers; the good and bad of coaching, umpiring, sign-stealing, base-running, and spring training; and the importance of superstition to athletes. Matty, as he was called