pitchers (baseball)

Profiles the life and career of professional baseball player Roy Halladay. Details his childhood in Colorado and his raise to fame with the Philadelphia Phillies. Includes photographs, a glossary, and further reading sources.

Recounts the 2007 season of professional baseball pitchers Tom Glavine and Mike Mussina, describing how each player strived to reach personal milestones as they neared the end of their careers.

Asks the reader to compare the statistics for thirty-three of baseball's greatest starting pitchers and decide who is the best.

Examines the life of Randy Johnson, one of history's most celebrated baseball players, providing information on his childhood and family, introduction to the game, playing career, and outside interests, and including photographs, statistics, and a time line.

Examines the life of baseball great Denton True "Cyclone" Young, and discusses his career in the context of the changing nature of the country and the sport in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

CC Sabathias strength and power on the mound is matched only by his humility and sportsmanship. This fascinating book follows his rise to baseball superstardom. After winning the Cy Young Award in Cleveland, Sabathia just got better every year.

A Buddhist monk in the New York Mets organization learns to throw a baseball with unerring accuracy at the blazing speed of 168 miles per hour.

Briefly describes some of baseball's best contemporary pitchers, both right-handers and lefties.

Text and color photos describe the history of pitching in Major League Baseball and profile several star pitchers.

Nine-year-old Trisha McFarland, lost in the woods after she wanders off to escape the bickering between her mom and her brother, boosts her courage by imagining that her hero, Boston Red Sox relief pitcher Tom Gordon, is with her, helping her survive an unknown enemy.