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Gaines, Bob. Christy Mathewson, The Christian Gentleman: How One Man’s Faith and Fastball Forever Changed Baseball. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2015. Pp. x+218. Illustrations, notes, appendices, works cited, and index. $38.00 hardback.
Reviewed by Paul Putz
Renowned for his pinpoint accuracy and his “fadeaway” pitch, Christy Mathewson’s baseball exploits are well known. He ended his seventeen-year career in 1916 with a sparkling 2.13 ERA and 373 wins (the latter stands as the third-highest total all-time), and in 1936 joined four other players selected in the Baseball Hall of Fame’s inaugural class. His off-the-field reputation is not exactly a secret, either. A bright student and three-sport star at Bucknell University from 1898 to 1900, Mathewson seemed to be the embodiment of the All-American athlete. Like the fictional character of Frank Merriwell, a popular Progressive Era dime novel hero, Mathewson was handsome, polite, God-fearing, and clean-living. In the rough-and-rowdy world of professional baseball, Mathewson seemed to be the ultimate Christian gentleman.
Rowman & Littlefield, 2015
Mathewson’s faith-based public image has been noted to varying degrees by all of his previous biographers. From Ray Robinson (Matty) t
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I was recently contacted by Jarol Manheim, Emeritus Professor of Media and Public Affairs and Political Science at George Washington University. He asked if I’d be interested in reviewing his novel, This Never Happened, The Mystery Behind the Death of Christy Mathewson, which is the first in his series called The Deadball Files — four baseball-themed mysteries and thrillers from the genre of alternative history. The author describes the series as follows: “Each book is based on some event from the Deadball Era that gives rise to a contemporary plot, and each includes both baseball and more general historical references.”
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