Spitting On Diamonds
Subtitle: A Spitball Pitcher's Journey To The Major Leagues, 1911-1919 (Sports and American Culture)
Publisher: University of Missouri Press
Published: June 13, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 329
ISBN-13: 9780826215697
Subjects: Baseball; Biography: sport; First World War, 1914-1918; c 1900 - c 1914; Biography/Autobiography; Biography; Biography & Autobiography; Biography / Autobiography; United States; Sports - General; Hogg, Bradley,; Baseball - History; Sports - Baseball; Baseball players; 1888-1935
First sentence: The ball left the tall pitcher's hand at the top of his throwing arc, beginning its erratic, sixty-foot, six-inch journey toward the inside corner of the plate.
Description: "Biography of early twentieth-century baseball pitcher, Bradley Hogg"--Provided by publisher.