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Summary: Fay Vincent endorsement
Review: "Baseball fans who know Cy Young only as the name of a pitching award may now learn the fascinating story of the player who was one of the dominant figures in the early years of our great game. This is a well-crafted and careful study of the great pitcher and a solid history of his era in baseball. I loved it and I learned a lot."-Fay Vincent, former commissioner of baseball
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Summary: Sports fan "must read"
Review: As a Boston fan for over 60 years I found some pride in reading this. Oh that we could find such pitchers with such talent and morality (if not mortality) in this day and age.I did notice on page 228, 14th line from the botton that a calculation error was made and I can't find the publisher on the web to report it. Both records should "tally to 38 games" would be the correction. An excellent buy and worthy of recommendation.
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Summary: Sports fan "must read"
Review: As a Boston fan for over 60 years I found some pride in reading this. Oh that we could find such pitchers with such talent and morality (if not mortality) in this day and age. I did notice on page 228, 14th line from the botton that a calculation error was made and I can't find the publisher on the web to report it. Both records should "tally to 38 games" would be the correction. An excellent buy and worthy of recommendation.
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Summary: Old Cy Young
Review: Considering that one of baseball's most prestigious awards was named after this man, it's astonishing that no comprehensive biography ever was written about him - until now. There was a juvenile bio here and there, a brief excursion through Young's life by Ralph Romig in 1964, but nothing else. Professor Reed Browning filled the gap, and he did so admirably. Some argue that Cy Young was such an uninteresting person that he left biographers little about which to write. But if you're truly a baseball fan and a student of the game, the basic facts of Young's life and career are inherently fascinating. Even for that period in baseball history Young's accomplishments and feats of endurance were extraordinary enough that they help the book write itself. In this scholarly work Professor Browning highlights the contexts in which Young lived and played the game of baseball. He ties together the strands of Young's long career in a well-organized and engrossing format. He avoids wandering and speculation and binds his commentary close to the available data. I thoroughly enjoyed this work and it clearly is a major contribution to the research on baseball history. In my opinion even the casual fan of baseball, who wants to understand the history of the game better, will prize this book. Mark Wernick, Ph.D.
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Summary: Old Cy Young
Review: Considering that one of baseball's most prestigious awards was named after this man, it's astonishing that no comprehensive biography ever was written about him - until now. There was a juvenile bio here and there, a brief excursion through Young's life by Ralph Romig in 1964, but nothing else. Professor Reed Browning filled the gap, and he did so admirably. Some argue that Cy Young was such an uninteresting person that he left biographers little about which to write. But if you're truly a baseball fan and a student of the game, the basic facts of Young's life and career are inherently fascinating. Even for that period in baseball history Young's accomplishments and feats of endurance were extraordinary enough that they help the book write itself. In this scholarly work Professor Browning highlights the contexts in which Young lived and played the game of baseball. He ties together the strands of Young's long career in a well-organized and engrossing format. He avoids wandering and speculation and binds his commentary close to the available data. I thoroughly enjoyed this work and it clearly is a major contribution to the research on baseball history. In my opinion even the casual fan of baseball, who wants to understand the history of the game better, will prize this book. Mark Wernick, Ph.D.
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Summary: the greatest pitcher in the history of baseball--CY YOUNG!!!
Review: CY YOUNG IS BEYOND A SHADOW OF A DOUBT THE GREATEST PITCHER IN BASEBALL HISTORY!TO THINK THAT HIS HIGHEST SALARY WAS ONLY $5,000!
THE PITCHERS OF TODAY CANNOT HOLD A CANDLE TO THE GREAT MR.YOUNG.THE MAN PITCHED OVER 7,000 ININGS,WAS A FIVE TIME 30 GAME WINNER,HAD THREE NO HITTERS,PICCHED 77 SHUTOUTS AND WAS STILL CHOPING WOOD AT 80 YEARS OF AGE.I AM PROUD TO OWN AN ORIGINAL CY YOUNG AUTOGRAPH,IT IS ONE OF MY MOST TREASURED POSSESSIONS OF BASEBALL HISTORY.FINALLY IN THE YEAR 2000 A DIFINITIVE BIOGRAPHY OF DENTON TRUE YTOUNG WAS PUBLISHED.NOW EVERYONE WHO READS THIS GREAT BOOK WILL KNOW THAT THE PITCHERS OF TODAY ARE OVERPAID,NOT REALLY VERY GOOD AND IN TOTAL RESPECT OF THE MASTER OF THEM ALL CY YOUNG!!!!!!!I RECOMMEND THIS BOOK TO EVERYONE WHO RESPECTS REAL PITCHING GREATNESS-THE ONE THE ONLY CY YOUNG!!!!!!!
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Summary: A Book Long Overdue
Review: Imagine a major league pitcher winning twenty games for twenty years. That would still put him 111 wins behind Cy Young. It's about time we had an authorative book on baseball's winningist pitcher. The author did a lot of research on this book, and it's true that the casual fan will find he is being told more than he wants to know about Cy Young. Young says the secret to his longevity as a pitcher lies in taking care of his body and not throwing more pitches than necessary to get a batter out. Hence, he never set any strikeout records. If you consider yourself interested in the history of baseball, add this book to your library with biographies of other great players. If you are a casual fan you might want to try something that is lighter reading.
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Summary: A Book Long Overdue
Review: Imagine a major league pitcher winning twenty games for twenty years. That would still put him 111 wins behind Cy Young. It's about time we had an authorative book on baseball's winningist pitcher. The author did a lot of research on this book, and it's true that the casual fan will find he is being told more than he wants to know about Cy Young. Young says the secret to his longevity as a pitcher lies in taking care of his body and not throwing more pitches than necessary to get a batter out. Hence, he never set any strikeout records. If you consider yourself interested in the history of baseball, add this book to your library with biographies of other great players. If you are a casual fan you might want to try something that is lighter reading.
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Summary: Well-researched and well written
Review: It is a sheer joy to read a baseball biography as carefully and authoritatively done as is this excellent book. Young was an admirable man and this book examines his life and career as fully and as interestingly as is I think possible. I don't think I have ever read a more carefully done baseball book, and while I first heard of the author when I read his excellent The War of Austrian Succession, I enjoyed this excellent book much. He has a book on the 1924 baseball season which, judging from the care taken with this book, would no doubt be a delight to read. I for one am grateful that a real historian has chosen to give us a book such as this biography: a most satifying and informative study of a great pitcher full of interesting facts about baseball during the years from 1890 to 1911.
Rating:
Summary: Well-researched and well written
Review: It is a sheer joy to read a baseball biography as carefully and authoritatively done as is this excellent book. Young was an admirable man and this book examines his life and career as fully and as interestingly as is I think possible. I don't think I have ever read a more carefully done baseball book, and while I first heard of the author when I read his excellent The War of Austrian Succession, I enjoyed this excellent book much. He has a book on the 1924 baseball season which, judging from the care taken with this book, would no doubt be a delight to read. I for one am grateful that a real historian has chosen to give us a book such as this biography: a most satifying and informative study of a great pitcher full of interesting facts about baseball during the years from 1890 to 1911.
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