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The Pitch That Killed
by Mike Sowell
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- Hardcover
- Condition
- New/New
- ISBN 10
- 0026124106
- ISBN 13
- 9780026124102
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Macmillan Publishing Company, 1989. Hardcover. New/New. A clean crisp well preserved 1989 Macmillan Publishing Company hardcover in a fine tight binding. Little to no shelf wear. Text is bright and free of marks or underlining. Fast shipping in a secure book box mailer with tracking. 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 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.
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- The Anthropologists Closet
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1658
- Title
- The Pitch That Killed
- Author
- Mike Sowell
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- New New
- Jacket Condition
- New
- Quantity Available
- 1
- ISBN 10
- 0026124106
- ISBN 13
- 9780026124102
- Publisher
- Macmillan Publishing Company
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1989
- Keywords
- Ray Chapman, Chappie, Wally Pipe, Carl Mays, Ty Cobb, Tris Speaker, Major League Baseball, Cleveland Indians, New York Yankees, 1920, Baseball,
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