The Greatest Game Ever Pitched : Juan Marichal, Warren Spahn, and the Pitching Duel of the Century (Paperback)

from robertmorrow

I enjoyed the book even though the title is horribly misleading. There's actually very little about the game itself; nothing about pitch selection, what the hitters were thinking, pretty much just a written narrative of the box score. What makes the book worthwhile is the biographical information...

from pineapplejuggler

Clearly written and tells a great story; not just that of the game the title references, but that of the lives of the two seemingly antithetical yet legendary protagonist pitchers: Juan Marichal and Warren Spahn. Some reviewers (at least on GoodReads) were expecting the game itself to figure in m...

from maneekuhi

This book was a huge disappointment. Of course I expected some background pages to dovetail nicely with descriptions of the game. Perhaps some background of the pitchers, the extent to which starters were used in the 60's compared to the few complete games pitched today, and maybe a quick overvie...