The Old Ball Game
Subtitle: How John McGraw, Christy Mathewson, and the New York Giants Created Modern Baseball
Publisher: Grove Press
Published: March 2, 2006
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9780802142474
Subjects: Baseball; Sports & Recreation; Sports; Baseball - History; Baseball - Specific Teams; Sports & Recreation / Baseball / History
First sentence: Although neither one of them ever seems to have mentioned it for posterity, John J. McGraw and Christopher Mathewson must surely have first encountered each other on the warm afternoon of Thursday, July 19, in the year 1900, at the Polo Grounds in the upper reaches of Manhattan on an occasion when, as was his wont, McGraw made an ass of himself.