Word: mathewson
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Like many of my fellow baseball fans, I sought to preserve the legacy and tradition of pitching for the future, refusing to let events like the Glorious Uprising of 1968 fade into oblivion. The names of past heroes—Mathewson, Grove, Gibson, Koufax, Seaver, among many others—were invoked in the darkest hours, when the onslaught of home runs, the rapidly inflating offensive records, and the skyrocketing ERAs grew too much to bear...
...less than a year after the U.S. had entered World War I, 15 Red Sox players were already in the military. By the end of the war, almost 250 players were serving, and many were on the battlefield in Europe. Christy Mathewson, a Hall of Fame pitcher and manager of the Cincinnatti Reds, was one of many who enlisted in the army. Mathewson died seven years later, after developing tuberculosis from poison...
...National Baseball Museum, the National Baseball Library and the Hall of Fame. Within the cathedral silence of the Hall visitors meet past greats, gazing mildly from bronze plaques mounted on the walls. Gathered there are the greatest ball players ever: Ruth and Gehrig, DiMaggio and Mantle, Koufax and Mathewson. The effect is stirring; unfortunately, U.S. baseball's racist past has been underplayed. It is as if we were reading a fine authorized biography, solid in many respects but edited by the subject, in this case Major League Baseball...