Pitching in a Pinch: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Pitching in a Pinch, credited to Christy Mathewson, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

About the work

The LibriVox catalogue summary, preserved with the recording, reads:

LibriVox recording of Pitching in a Pinch, by Christy Mathewson. Read by Lee Smalley. In this book Mathewson is telling the reader of the game as it is played in the Big Leagues.... It’s as good as his pitching and some exciting things have happened in the Big Leagues, stories that never found their way into the newspapers. Matty has told them. This is a true tale of Big Leaguers, their habits and their methods of playing the game, written by one of them. (Summary by John N. Wheeler -- from the Introduction)

Recording facts

• Recording title: Pitching in a Pinch
• Author credits: Christy Mathewson
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 14
• Listed recording duration: 5:30:27

Catalogue topics

• Memoirs
• Sports
• Baseball
• Major Leagues
• Pitching

Track guide

1. 00 - Introduction — 3:32
2. 01 - The Most Dangerous Batters I Have Met — 22:11
3. 02 - 'Take Him Out!' — 34:44
4. 03 - Pitching In a Pinch — 21:33
5. 04 - Big League Pitchers and Their Peculiarities — 20:11
6. 05 - Playing the Game from the Bench — 25:58
7. 06 - Coaching--Good and Bad — 25:10
8. 07 - Honest and Dishonest Sign Stealing — 22:55
9. 08 - Umpires and Close Decisions — 23:36
10. 09 - The Game that Cost a Pennant — 25:16
11. 10 - When the Teams Are in Spring Training — 26:42
12. 11 - Jinxes and what they Mean to a Ball-Player — 26:27
13. 12 - Base Runners and how they Help a Pitcher to Win — 26:41
14. 13 - Notable Instances where the — 25:37

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