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S'està carregant… Cy Young: A Baseball Lifede Reed Browning
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Apunta't a LibraryThing per saber si aquest llibre et pot agradar. No hi ha cap discussió a Converses sobre aquesta obra. I think that nobody writes baseball better than Reed Browning. He always offers a smooth narrative with just enough statistical analysis and informed opinion to persuade a reader as to the validity of the several viewpoints on points of contention in baseball's historical community. In this case his subject is baseball's winningest pitcher, Old Cy Young. I've seen many an 'untouchable' baseball record threatened or broken in my day, but Young's wins record is truly one that will endure--try to imagine a pitcher these days winning twenty games a season for twenty years, and then reflect upon the fact that said pitcher would still have to pick up another 100 wins somewhere. Young's record for most innings pitched is, if anything, even more unbreakable. The narrative of Young's life and career is broken by a few interstitial chapters which treat of discussions of various life-and-times issues placing Young in the context of the eras in which he played. Young was a genial man who wore his fame rather lightly, and this book gives a very full picture of that as well as of his career. ( ) In the 1890s and 1900s, we learn from Reed Browning’s Cy Young: A Baseball Life, baseball players sometimes were reported by the press to be suffering from malaria. While that would be a surprising development today, back then malaria was widespread in the U.S. However, the etiology of these cases was unusual and for that reason not reported by the press. The players, it seems, were struck by the disease after spending time in enjoyment of the company of frolicsome women rather than noxious mosquitos. By contrast, Cy Young, a blissfully married man whose love for his wife was faithful and unstinting, never in his twenty-two seasons suffered from ballplayer’s “malaria.” Those were the times of seeing between the lines. Appropriate for a sport like baseball. These and other details give interest to Reed Browning’s biography of the pitching legend famous in name though not in image. It’s a well-documented story plus a fair assessment of Young’s achievement and provides an excellent picture of what is was like to pitch back in the 1890s and 1900s. It’s also a look at what was then a still-developing sport—half of Cy Young’s career was over before the American League even came into existence. A good book for historically minded baseball fans. 3813. Cy Young A Baseball Life, by Reed Browning (read 15 Oct 2003) Ever since I read historian Reed Browning's The War of the Austrian Succession I have wanted to read this book. Cy Young was born 29 Mar 1867 and died 4 Nov. 1955, having won more major league games than any other pitcher ever has or ever will. The book is very well and carefully written and tells well of Young's career and life. There are lots of footnotes and a good bibliography--so it is not a sportswriter's thrown together biography. I enjoyed this solid baseball book muchly. Sense ressenyes | afegeix-hi una ressenya
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He was the winner of 511 major league baseball games, nearly a hundred more than any other pitcher. He threw three no-hitters, including the first perfect game in the new American League. He was among the original twelve players inducted into baseball's Hall of Fame, and his name is now attached to the game's most prestigious pitching award. Yet for all his accomplishments, Cy Young remains to most baseball fans a legendary but little known figure. In this book, Reed Browning re-creates the life of Denton True "Cyclone" Young and places his story in the context of a rapidly changing turn-of-the-century America. Born in rural Ohio, the son of a Civil War veteran, Young learned his trade at a time when only underhand pitching was permitted. When he began his professional career in 1890, pitchers wore no gloves and stood five feet closer to the batter than they do today. By the time he retired in 1911, the game of baseball had evolved into its modern form and claimed unquestioned status as America's "national pastime." As Browning shows, Young's extraordinary mastery of his craft owed much to his ability to adapt to the changing nature of the game. Endowed with an exceptional fastball, he gradually developed a wide array of deliveries and pitches?all of which he could throw with astonishing control. Yet his success can also be attributed, at least in part, to the rustic values of loyalty, hard work, and fair play that he embraced and embodied, and for which he became renowned among baseball fans of his day. No s'han trobat descripcions de biblioteca. |
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