
Almost Perfect
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From 1908 to 2015, there have been thirteen pitchers who have begun Major League Baseball games by retiring the first twenty-six opposing batters, but then, one out from completing a perfect game, somehow faltering (or having perfection stolen from them). Three other pitchers did successfully retire twenty-seven batters in a row, but are still not credited with perfect games. While stories of pitching the perfect game have been told and retold, Almost Perfect looks at how baseball, at its core, is about heartbreak, and these sixteen men are closer to what baseball really is, and why we remain invested in the sport. Author Joe Cox visits this notion through a century of baseball and through these sixteen pitchers-recounting their games in thrilling fashion, telling the personal stories of the fascinating (and very human) baseball figures involved, and exploring the historical American and baseball backdrops of each flawed gem.
From George "Hooks" Wiltse's nearly perfect game in 1908 to "Hard Luck" Harvey Haddix's 12-inning, 36-consecutive-outs performance on May 26, 1959 (the most astounding single-game pitching performance in baseball history) to Max Scherzer's near miss in 2015, Joe Cox's book captures the action, the humanity, and the history of the national pastime's greatest "almosts."
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Joe Cox deftly conjures up the past, allowing us to fully consider a handful of pitchers who deserved a better fate. -- Tim Wendel, author of Summer of '68: The Season That Changed Baseball-and America-Forever [M]eticulously researched . . . Cox holds up their brush with perfection as a mirror for the fallible human condition. . . . Cox adds considerable pre- and postgame context to these almost-perfectos to give his subjects and the national pastime depth. . . . The ambitious effort will appeal to hard-core fans." * Publishers Weekly * . . . very well researched baseball fun. * Booklist *More details
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- Intro
- CONTENTS
- FOREWORD
- INTRODUCTION
- Chapter 1 "THERE'LL SURE BE RAIN, FOR YOU HEARD THE THUNDER"
- Chapter 2 IN RELIEF OF THE BABE
- Chapter 3 "150 POUNDS OF SHEER GUTS"
- Chapter 4 BILLY THE KID . . . "WHAT MORE DO YOU WANT?"
- Chapter 5 THE GREATEST PITCHING MASTERPIECE IN BASEBALL HISTORY
- Chapter 6 "YOU'VE GOT TO BE KIDDING ME"
- Chapter 7 FROM THE TIGERS TO THE DOGS
- Chapter 8 THE TRUE CREATURE AND CHARLIE HUSTLE
- Chapter 9 TOMORROW I'LL BE PERFECT
- Chapter 10 "IT'S JUST BASEBALL"
- Chapter 11 LITTLE BROTHER NO MORE
- Chapter 12 MR. ALMOST AND AMERICA'S TRAGEDY
- Chapter 13 PERFECTLY IMPERFECT
- Chapter 14 NEAR PERFECTION FROM THE LAND OF THE RISING SUN
- Chapter 15 DOWN TO A DREAM
- Chapter 16 THE ILLUSION OF CONTROL
- AFTERWORD
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
- SOURCES
- BIBLIOGRAPHY
- INDEX
- ABOUT THE AUTHOR
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