The Pitch That Killed: Carl Mays, Ray Chapman and the Pennant

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The Pitch That Killed: Carl Mays, Ray Chapman and the Pennant Race of 1920 (Summer Game Books Baseball Classic)

On a torridly hot August day in 1920, Ray Chapman was struck and killed by a Carl Mays fastball, in what was and remains the only on-the-field fatality in the history of major league baseball. The drama of Good Guy Chapman versus Bad Guy Mays is a wrenching human tale. Add to it an intense pennant race, the meteoric ascension of Babe Ruth to baseball supremacy, the banning of the Black Sox for throwing the previous year's World Series, and the story grows to one of the most fascinating and compelling in the annals of baseball history.
Mike Sowell's brilliant account of the events of 1920--meticulously researched and mellifluously written--captures all the intensity of the moment of the Chapman beaning and the entire incredible season. Only a writer of Sowell's power and skill could do justice to such a tale, and the result is one of the most highly respected and widely acclaimed baseball books ever written.
The Summer Game Books edition is the first and only eBook of this classic, and features an exclusive new epilogue by the author, with 25 years of perspective, during which time the legends of Mays, Chapman, and Chapman's replacement, Joe Sewell, have only grown.

Country	USA
Author	Mike Sowell
Binding	Kindle Edition
EISBN	9781938545726
Format	Kindle eBook
IsAdultProduct
Label	Summer Game Books
Manufacturer	Summer Game Books
NumberOfPages	352
PublicationDate	2015-10-01
Publisher	Summer Game Books
ReleaseDate	2015-10-01
Studio	Summer Game Books

The Pitch That Killed: Carl Mays, Ray Chapman and the Pennant Race of 1920 (Summer Game Books Baseball Classic)

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