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Full count : the education of a pitcher
- Title
- Full count : the education of a pitcher / David Cone and Jack Curry.
- Author
- Cone, David, 1963-
- Publication
- New York : Grand Central Publishing, 2019.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | JFE 19-7187 | Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 |
Details
- Additional Authors
- Curry, Jack
- Description
- viii, 387 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color); 24 cm
- Summary
- A Mets and Yankees All-Star pitcher shares lessons from his seventeen-year career, detailing his passion, frustrations, and strategies, and offering stories from the memorable teams he played on.
- During his 17-year career, Cone became a master of the mechanics and mental toughness a pitcher needs to succeed in the major leagues. A five-time All-Star and five-time World Champion, he now gives his full count of his colorful life in baseball. From the pitchers he studied to the hitters who infuriated him, Cone takes readers inside the mind of a thoughtful pitcher, detailing his passion, composure and strategies-- and the lessons baseball taught him. -- adapted from jacket
- Subjects
- Baseball players
- Pitchers (Baseball)
- BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Personal Memoirs
- SPORTS & RECREATION / Baseball / Essays & Writings
- Baseball players > United States > Biography
- Cone, David, 1963-
- Pitchers (Baseball) > United States > Biography
- United States
- Biographies
- Biography
- Baseball
- BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Sports
- Genre/Form
- Biography.
- Biographies.
- Note
- Includes index.
- Contents
- Introduction: a reflection -- Maniacal on the mound -- When the going gets tough -- Start me up -- $47 paychecks and sleeping on the floor -- Kansas City, here I come -- Let's go Mets -- The dance with catchers -- The man in blue is lurking -- Under pressure -- No tipping allowed -- Setting up hitters -- The pitching lessons never end -- The Yankees Universe: 1995-1997 -- Like in Yankeeland: 1998-2000 -- Anatomy of an inning -- The day I was perfect -- The baseball fix -- Extra innings. Winning the battle with Bonds -- Nothing but fastballs for Cal -- Manny being Manny -- Intimidated by Gwynn -- Prime time -- Epilogue: Cone's clinic.
- Call Number
- JFE 19-7187
- ISBN
- 9781538748848
- 1538748843
- LCCN
- 2019930191
- OCLC
- 1051137705
- Author
- Cone, David, 1963- author.
- Title
- Full count : the education of a pitcher / David Cone and Jack Curry.
- Publisher
- New York : Grand Central Publishing, 2019.
- Edition
- First edition.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Added Author
- Curry, Jack, author.
- Research Call Number
- JFE 19-7187