pitchers (baseball)

The autobiography of major-league baseball player Jim Abbott, the disabled Michigan native who pitched for the Los Angeles Angels and the New York Yankees as well as other teams before retiring from the game in 1999.

Looks at some of the best pitchers in baseball history, including Bob Gibson, Christy Mathewson, Greg Maddux, and Mariano Rivera.

Provides accounts of over thirty of the best-pitched games in the history of baseball, covering perfect games, near-misses, no-hitters, strikeouts, and clutch performances, each with photographs and statistics, and includes a companion DVD program.

Baseball pitcher Dwight Gooden describes his life and career, including his time with the New York Mets, his addiction to drugs, and recovery.

When a shoulder injury ended his minor league pitching career twelve years ago, Jim Morris resorted to the next best thing: coaching. But Jim's team, knowing their coach is a great ball player, makes a deal with him: if they win the district championship, they want Jim to try out for a major-league organization. Going from worst to first, the team makes it to state, and Jim is forced to live up to his end of the deal. While there prove to be a lot of pitches to be thrown before he makes it off the mound, big-league dreams are revived, and there's no telling where he could go.

Ricky's mom tries to help him practice, but Ricky won't make the high-school team unless his neighbor, a washed-up 1978 World Series pitcher, agrees to coach him.

"A TRUE STORY OF FINDING THE AMERICAN DREAM. ABROAD India is a country with more than one billion people, a fanatical national cricket obsession, and exactly zero talent scouts. There, superstar sports agent J. B. Bernstein knew that he could find the Yao Ming of baseball-- someone with a strong arm and enough raw talent to pitch in the major leagues. Almost no one in India is familiar with the game, but Bernstein had heard enough coaches swear that if you gave them a guy who throws a hundred miles an hour, they could teach him how to pitch. So in 2007, Bernstein flew to Mumbai with a radar gun and a plan to find his diamond in the rough. His idea was The Million Dollar Arm, a reality television competition with a huge cash prize and a chance to become the first native of India to sign a contract with an American major-league team. The result is a humorous and inspiring story about three guys transformed: Bernstein, the consummate bachelor and shrewd businessman, and Dinesh and Rinku, the two young men from small farming villages whom he brought home to California. Million Dollar Arm is a timeless reflection on baseball and the American dream, as well as a tale of victory over incredible odds. But, above all, it's about the limitless possibilities inside every one of us"--.

Text and accompanying photographs profile twenty-seven of the best pitchers in the history of baseball, including Nolan Ryan, Tom Seaver, Dizzy Dean, and Cy Young.

Profiles the life of the famous baseball pitcher, including his rapid weight loss in college, being the first pick for Washington, and his injury and reahbilitation months into his career.