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Living on the Black: Two Pitchers, Two Teams, One Season to Remember | 
 enlarge | Author: John Feinstein
Publisher: Little, Brown and Company
Category: Book
List Price: $26.99
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Avg. Customer Rating:  2 reviews
Sales Rank: 847
Media: Hardcover
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 544
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.7
Dimensions (in): 9.3 x 6 x 1.9
ISBN: 0316113913
Dewey Decimal Number: 796.3570922
EAN: 9780316113915
ASIN: 0316113913
Publication Date: May 1, 2008 (New: Last 30 Days)
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Product Description
Pitchers are the heart of baseball, and John Feinstein tells the story of the game today through one season and two great pitchers working in the crucible of the New York media market. Tom Glavine and Mike Mussina have seen it all in the Major Leagues and both entered 2007 in search of individual milestones and one more shot at The World Series-Glavine with the Mets, Mussina five miles away with the Yankees. The two veterans experience very different seasons--one on a team dealing with the pressure to get to a World Series for the first time in seven years, the other with a team expected to be there every year. Taking the reader through contract negotiations, spring training, the ups of wins and losses, and the people in their lives-family, managers, pitching coaches, agents, catchers, other pitchers--John Feinstein provides a true insider's look at the pressure cooker of sports at the highest level.
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 Very Disappointing April 30, 2008
2 out of 5 found this review helpful
A terrible book - one of Feinstein's worst. Limited insight - no real analysis. Basically just a game by game rehashing of the season with no new information for a fan that follows baseball and the Mets and Yankees, specifically. Mr. Feinstein presented nothing beyond what already exists in boxscores and game recaps. Its almost as if he spent a year following Mussina and Glavine and then he realized that there really wasnt an interesting book in their respective seasons; but, after spending all that time, he needed to produce something. In addition to the subpar effort from Mr. Feinstein, there were too many typos to count.
 99% perfect April 23, 2008
10 out of 12 found this review helpful
This was an excellent book, with the notable exception of a few errors - typos on last names, mistaking the Trenton Thunder as the AAA Yankees affiliate (it's the AA team), and biggest of all, stating that the Mets and Nationals (it was the Phils) were in a first place tie on the last day of the season.
Other than those things, this book was fantastic, giving timely insight into what goes on in the pitchers' minds throughout the season. I highly recommend it for any fan of Moose, Glavine, the Mets or Yanks, or any baseball fan in general.
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