by Thomas W. Gilbert
He threw the first fastball. The first curveball. He was baseball's first star--and its first tragedy. In Death in the Strike Zone, acclaimed historian Thomas W. Gilbert uncovers the forgotten life of James Creighton, the first American ballplayer to become a national sensation. On the eve of the Civil War, Creighton invented something utterly new in baseball - modern pitching. Creighton was so dominant, so mesmerizing, that the game had to rewrite the rulebook to catch up with him. He is the
ISBN: 9781567927597
200 pages
Published: 2026-03-24