The Year of the Pitcher
Read by
Leon Nixon
Release:
10/30/2018
Release:
10/30/2018
Release:
10/30/2018
Release:
10/30/2018
Runtime:
12h 55m
Runtime:
12h 55m
Runtime:
12h 55m
Quantity:
“Here’s the rare baseball book that succeeds as first-rate sports-writing and dramatic history…Prodigious reporting and beautiful writing.”
Jonathan Eig, New York Times bestselling author
The Year of the Pitcher is the story of the remarkable 1968 baseball season, which culminated in one of the greatest World Series contests ever, with the Detroit Tigers coming back from a 3–1 deficit to beat the Cardinals in Game Seven of the World Series.
In 1968, two remarkable pitchers would dominate the game as well as the broadsheets. One was black, the other white. Bob Gibson, together with the St. Louis Cardinals, embodied an entire generation's hope for integration at a heated moment in American history. Denny McLain, his adversary, was a crass self-promoter who eschewed the team charter and his Detroit Tigers teammates to zip cross-country in his own plane. For one season, the nation watched as these two men and their teams swept their respective league championships to meet at the World Series. Gibson set a major league record that year with a 1.12 ERA. McLain won more than 30 games in 1968, a feat not achieved since 1934 and untouched since. Together, the two have come to stand as iconic symbols, giving the fans "The Year of the Pitcher" and changing the game.
In 1968, two remarkable pitchers would dominate the game as well as the broadsheets. One was black, the other white. Bob Gibson, together with the St. Louis Cardinals, embodied an entire generation's hope for integration at a heated moment in American history. Denny McLain, his adversary, was a crass self-promoter who eschewed the team charter and his Detroit Tigers teammates to zip cross-country in his own plane. For one season, the nation watched as these two men and their teams swept their respective league championships to meet at the World Series. Gibson set a major league record that year with a 1.12 ERA. McLain won more than 30 games in 1968, a feat not achieved since 1934 and untouched since. Together, the two have come to stand as iconic symbols, giving the fans "The Year of the Pitcher" and changing the game.
Release:
2018-10-30
2018-10-30
2018-10-30
2018-10-30
Runtime:
Runtime:
Runtime:
Runtime:
12h 55m
12h 55m
12h 55m
12h 55m
Format:
audio
audio
audio
audio
Weight:
0.0 lb
0.95 lb
0.5 lb
0.98 lb
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781977386069
9781665224253
9781665224260
9781977316066
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