Catcher: How the Man Behind the Plate Became an American Folk Hero - Tapa blanda

Morris, Peter

 
9781566638708: Catcher: How the Man Behind the Plate Became an American Folk Hero
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ISBN 10: 1566638704 ISBN 13: 9781566638708
Editorial: Ivan R. Dee, 2010

Sinopsis

Today's baseball catcher stolidly goes about his duty without attracting much attention. But it wasn't always that way, as Peter Morris shows in this lively and original study. In baseball's early days, catchers stood a safe distance back of the batter without protective gear. Then the introduction of the curveball in the 1870s led them to move up directly behind home plate, even though they still wore no gloves or other protection. Extraordinary courage became the catcher's most notable requirement, but the new positioning also demanded that the catcher have lightning-fast reflexes, great hands, and a throwing arm with the power of a cannon. With so great a range of required skills, a special mystique came to surround the position, and it began to seem that a good catcher could single-handedly make the difference between a winning and losing team.

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Peter Morris's most recent book is But Didn't We Have Fun?, a widely praised informal history of the early days of baseball before it turned professional. His A Game of Inches, a compendium of baseball's innovations, was called 'magisterial' by the Boston Globe and was the first book ever to win both the Seymour Medal and the Casey Award as the best baseball book of the year. A former national and international Scrabble champion, Mr. Morris lives in Haslett, Michigan.

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Editorial
Ivan R. Dee
Año de publicación
2010
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
1566638704
ISBN 13 
9781566638708
Encuadernación
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Número de páginas
400
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Friedensallee 273
Hamburg
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9781566638227: Catcher: How the Man Behind the Plate Became an American Folk Hero

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ISBN 10:  1566638224 ISBN 13:  9781566638227
Editorial: Ivan R Dee, 2009
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