Matty : Christy Mathewson of the New York Giants
When all-time pitching great Christy Mathewson died of tuberculosis in 1925 at the age of 45, it touched off a wave of national mourning that remains without precedent for an American athlete. The World Series was underway, and the game the day after Mathewson's death took on the trappings of a...
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Cary :
Oxford University Press, Incorporated,
1994
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