Living on the Black: Two Pitchers, Two Teams, One Season to Remember
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| Rating | : | 4.75 (659 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1400107490 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 216 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-11-09 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
An interesting and insightful look at two pitching greats Living on the Black is an interesting and insightful look at Tom Glavine and Mike Mussina, two of the game's greatest pitchers, during the 2007 season. Both pitchers experience frustrating seasons.Glavine posts a 13-8 record for the Mets while registering his 300th career win. The Mets choke down the stretch, blowing a 7-game lead with 16 to play. Mussina goes 11-6 for the Yankees, who capture the wild card and lose to the Cleveland Indians in the first round of th. Tedious I bought this book with great optimism. I'm a fan of baseball non-fiction and thought the concept was great. Unfortunately it has proven to be a tedious read. There is very little real insight into the mind of the pitcher and is basically a re-hashing of two teams' seasons.Nice idea but could have been accomplished in about 75 pages. I learned more about Tom Glavine's divorce and re-marriage than about the perspective of a starting pitcher.. "Right on the Money" according to Joseph H. Bouchard. The book came in timely fashion and in great shape. And at a great price. Right on as advertised!
. Best known for mysteries, Mel has also narrated classic authors such as Thoreau, Nabokov, and Whitman. He has also won several AudioFile Earphones Awards. John Feinstein, a writer for Inside Sports and Golf, is the bestselling author of Let Me Tell You a Story and Caddy for Life.Mel Foster, an audiobook narrator since 2002, won an Audie Award for Finding God in Unexpected Places by Philip Yancey
Taking the reader through contract negotiations, spring training, the ups of wins and the downs of losses, and the people in their lives-family, managers, pitching coaches, agents, catchers, other pitchers-Feinstein provides a true insider's look at the pressure cooker of sports at the highest level.. The two veterans experience very different seasons-one on a team dealing with the pressure to get to a World Series for the first time in seven years, the other with a team expected to be there every year. Seasoned pitchers Tom Glavine and Mike Mussina have seen it all in the Major Leagues, and both entered 2007 in search of individual milestones and one more shot at the World Series-Glavine with the Mets, Mussina five miles away with the Yankees
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