Download e-book for kindle: Inside Pitch: Playing and Broadcasting the Game I Love by Nick Cafardo,Tom Glavine,Greg Maddux

By Nick Cafardo,Tom Glavine,Greg Maddux

one of many maximum pitchers of his new release, Tom Glavine added the defining second of the Atlanta Braves' Nineteen Nineties dynasty. Glavine took the Atlanta-Fulton County Stadium mound for video game 6 of the 1995 international sequence and allowed only one hit because the Braves gained 1–0 to clinch Atlanta's first, and simply, global sequence identify. Glavine captured the realm sequence MVP trophy and the hearts of Braves lovers perpetually. In within Pitch, the left-hander tells the tale that led as much as this second of glory and numerous others in a corridor of status profession that spanned 22 seasons. Glavine presents an in-depth examine the Braves' glory years, together with his neighbors and fellow Cy younger Award winners Greg Maddux and John Smoltz and supervisor Bobby Cox. Glavine additionally stocks stories of teammates from Deion Sanders to Chipper Jones and of enjoying for proprietor Ted Turner. He additionally tells his personal tale from growing to be up in a working-class kinfolk, pushing himself to be successful and his selection to show down an opportunity to play professional hockey, deciding upon baseball in its place. He describes his three hundredth win, his election to baseball's corridor of status, and his later seasons with the recent York Mets earlier than returning to shut out his occupation with the Braves. fanatics of the Braves, and of baseball, will love Glavine's ebook. it's jam-packed with all of the drama and proposal that make the sport America's passion.

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