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Almost Perfect: The Heartbreaking Pursuit of Pitching´s Holy Grail
Joe Cox
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Description for Almost Perfect: The Heartbreaking Pursuit of Pitching´s Holy Grail
Hardback. "Distributed by NATIONAL BOOK NETWORK"--T.p. verso. Num Pages: 280 pages, 16 black & white halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBB; WSBX; WSJT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 237 x 159 x 29. Weight in Grams: 549.
The rich, poignant tales of major league baseball's most hard-luck fraternity-the pitchers of its Almost-Perfect Games From 1908 to 2015, there have been thirteen pitchers who have begun Major League Baseball games by retiring the first twenty-six opposing batters, but then, one out from completing a perfect game, somehow faltering (or having perfection stolen from them). Three other pitchers did successfully retire twenty-seven batters in a row, but are still not credited with perfect games. While stories of pitching the perfect game have been told and retold, Almost Perfect looks at how baseball, at its core, is ... Read more
The rich, poignant tales of major league baseball's most hard-luck fraternity-the pitchers of its Almost-Perfect Games From 1908 to 2015, there have been thirteen pitchers who have begun Major League Baseball games by retiring the first twenty-six opposing batters, but then, one out from completing a perfect game, somehow faltering (or having perfection stolen from them). Three other pitchers did successfully retire twenty-seven batters in a row, but are still not credited with perfect games. While stories of pitching the perfect game have been told and retold, Almost Perfect looks at how baseball, at its core, is ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
Weight
549g
Number of Pages
280
Place of Publication
Guilford, United States
ISBN
9781493019502
SKU
V9781493019502
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Ref
99-15
About Joe Cox
Joe Cox is a member of the Society for American Baseball Research (SABR) and is the co-author of multiple sports books, including Fightin' Words: Kentucky vs. Louisville and Voice of the Wildcats: Claude Sullivan and the Rise of Modern Sportscasting. He lives in Bowling Green, Kentucky.
Reviews for Almost Perfect: The Heartbreaking Pursuit of Pitching´s Holy Grail
As that baseball fanatic Tolstoy almost wrote, `All perfect games resemble one another; each imperfect game is imperfect in its own way.' Cox analyzes the 16 games between 1908 and 2015 in which pitchers retired at least the first 26 batters they faced, only to see perfection elude them.
The New York Times
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The New York Times
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