How I Would Pitch to Babe Ruth (first printing) Tom Seaver versus the Sluggers - A Pitcher's Breakdown on How to Pitch to: Hank Aaron, Ernie Banks, Johnny Bench, Roberto Clemente, Ty Cobb, Joe DiMaggio, Lou Gehrig, Josh Gibson, Gil Hodges, Rogers Hornsby, Al Kaline, Mickey Mantle, Willie Mays, Stan Musial, Frank Robinson, Jackie Robinson, Honus Wagner & Ted Williams

Seaver, Tom

Published by Playboy Press, Chicago, 1974

About this Item

Playboy Press. Chicago, IL. 1974. 268 pages. First edition, first printing. The ultimate baseball book for pitchers; a detailed breakdown of how the greatest pitcher of the modern era would have attacked the greatest sluggers of all time. The list of sluggers includes: Babe Ruth, Hank Aaron, Ernie Banks, Johnny Bench, Roberto Clemente, Ty Cobb, Joe DiMaggio, Lou Gehrig, Josh Gibson, Gil Hodges, Rogers Hornsby, Al Kaline, Mickey Mantle, Willie Mays, Stan Musial, Frank Robinson, Jackie Robinson, Honus Wagner & Ted Williams. Essentially, a thinking man's history of baseball, book. Book is tight. Binding and hinges are strong and sound. Blue cloth is bright. Gilt titles are bright on spine. Clean inside and out. Pages & endpapers are bright and clean. Original DJ with $8.50 price intact. Cloth shows minor shelf-rubbing on one tip. DJ shows light stress on upper front shoulder, and minor shelf-rubbing at base. A clean, tight, attractive copy of the uncommon classic from Playboy Press, a publisher notorious for their small print-runs of hardcovers, due in part to their quasi-mail-order distribution, as titles were ordered from the pages of their magazine, versus being offered at the local book store. VG+/VG.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: How I Would Pitch to Babe Ruth (first printing) Tom Seaver versus the Sluggers - A Pitcher's Breakdown on How to Pitch to: Hank Aaron, Ernie Banks, Johnny Bench, Roberto Clemente, Ty Cobb, Joe DiMaggio, Lou Gehrig, Josh Gibson, Gil Hodges, Rogers Hornsby, Al Kaline, Mickey Mantle, Willie Mays, Stan Musial, Frank Robinson, Jackie Robinson, Honus Wagner & Ted Williams
• Publisher: Playboy Press, Chicago
• Publication Date: 1974
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good
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