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The player : Christy Mathewson, baseball, and the American century by Philip M. Seib is a biography available to read on EtoBox.
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Christy Mathewson (1880-1925) was baseball's first superstar pitcher who still ranks among the all-time leaders in wins, earned run average, and shutouts. Mathewson was in the first group elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame, with Babe Ruth, Honus Wagner, Ty Cobb, and Walter Johnson. At a time when professional ballplayers were regarded as hard-living rogues, Matty was a soft-spoken college boy who espoused clean living and did more than any other athlete to elevate the place of sports in Americ
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- Author
- Philip M. Seib
- Publisher
- New York: Four Walls Eight Windows
- Published
- 2003
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781568583181
- Category
- biography
- Subjects
- Anthropology, Memoir, Fiction
- Rating
- 3.53 / 5 (6 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-13
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