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Highs and Lows in the greatest seasons,
By R J Lesch (Des Moines, IA United States) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Unhittable! Baseball's Greatest Pitching Seasons (Paperback)
Schechter's presentation of the great pitching seasons in this book is remarkable in that it shows both the highs and lows in each season. Even the most stunning seasons had a losing streak here or a poor outing there. The most remarkable chapters in the book (Jack Chesbro's 1904 season, Warren Spah 1963, Nolan Ryan 1973 and Orel Hershiser 1988) are impressive not because they necessarily present the best performances, but because they best illustrate the idea that a baseball season is a marathon, not a sprint. We see, in 24 of the 25 chapters, where the pitcher hits a wall of some sort -- an injury, a team slump, a family crisis (the health problems of Hershiser's infant son, for example) and battles through it to achieve a measure of greatness.The exception might be Lefty Grove's 1931 season, for which Schechter makes the case that a 31-4 record is misleading -- Grove might very well have had an undefeated season that year! The appendices "The Best of the Rest" and "The Best of the Bullpen" are also excellent reading. |
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Unhittable! Baseball's Greatest Pitching Seasons by Gabriel Schechter (Paperback - February 22, 2002)
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