Pitch That Killed

Name: Pitch That Killed
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ISBN: 9780026124102

ISBN-10: 0026124106

ISBN-13: 9780026124102

Edition: N/A

Authors: Mike Sowell

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Since major league baseball began in 1871, there have been roughly 30 million pitches thrown to batters. Only one of them killed a man. This is the story of Ray Chapman of the Cleveland Indians, a popular player struck in the head and killed in August 1920 by a pitch thrown by Carl Mays of the New York Yankees. Was it, as most baseball observers thought at the time, a tragic but unavoidable accident? Mike Sowell's brilliant book investigates the incident and probes deep into the backgrounds of the players involved and the events that led to one of baseball's darkest moments. Book jacket.

Book details

List price: $17.95
Publisher: Macmillan Publishing Company, Incorporated
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 256
Weight: 1.430
Language: English



Prologue


Acknowledgments


Carl Mays


Ray Chapman


The Pennant Race


The Beaning


The Boycott


Joe Sewell


The Aftermath


Bibliography


Index