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- Original Language
- English
- ISBN
- 0306832593
- Book Title
- Last of His Kind : Clayton Kershaw and the Burden of Greatness
- Item Length
- 9.3in
- Publisher
- Hachette Books
- Publication Year
- 2024
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 1.3in
- Genre
- Biography & Autobiography, Sports & Recreation
- Topic
- Baseball / History, Baseball / General, Sports
- Item Width
- 6.4in
- Item Weight
- 20.5 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 400 Pages
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The definitive biography of Dodgers ace Clayton Kershaw, examining the genesis of his brilliance, his epic quest to win the World Series, and his singular place within the evolving baseball landscape--based on exclusive interviews with Kershaw and more than 200 others. More than any baseball player of his generation, Clayton Kershaw has embodied the burden of athletic greatness, the prizes and perils that await those who strive for it all. He is a three-time Cy Young award winner, the first pitcher to win National League MVP since Bob Gibson, and a surefire, first-ballot Hall of Famer. Many of his peers consider him the greatest pitcher to ever climb atop a big-league mound. In an age when baseball became more impersonal, a sport altered by adherence to algorithms and actuarial tables, Kershaw personified the game's lingering humanity, with his joy and suffering on display each October as he chased a championship. He pitched through pain, placing his future at risk on the game's grandest stages. He endeared himself to teammates and foes alike with his refusal to make excuses, with his willingness to shoulder the blame when he failed. And he only further impressed them when he returned, year after year, even as his body broke down from the strain of his profession. The journey captivated fans in Los Angeles and beyond, so much so that when the Dodgers finally won a title in 2020, the baseball world exulted in his triumph. The Last of His Kind traces Kershaw's path from a boyhood fractured by divorce to his development as one of the most-heralded pitching prospects in Texas history to his emergence in Los Angeles as the spiritual heir to Sandy Koufax. But the book also charts Kershaw's place in baseball's changing landscape, as his own stubbornness butted against the game's evolution. The story of baseball in the 21st century can be told through Kershaw's career, from his apprenticeship with icons like Joe Torre and Greg Maddux, to his wary relationship with the implementation of analytics, to his victimhood in the 2017 sign-stealing scandal at the hands of the Houston Astros. The game has changed so much during Kershaw's illustrious career. To understand how baseball is played today, and how it got that way, you must understand the journey of Clayton Kershaw.
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Hachette Books
ISBN-10
0306832593
ISBN-13
9780306832598
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Book Title
Last of His Kind : Clayton Kershaw and the Burden of Greatness
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
Baseball / History, Baseball / General, Sports
Publication Year
2024
Genre
Biography & Autobiography, Sports & Recreation
Number of Pages
400 Pages
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Item Length
9.3in
Item Height
1.3in
Item Width
6.4in
Item Weight
20.5 Oz
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"Reading Andy McCullough is like watching Clayton Kershaw: you sit back and savor a master of his craft. In The Last of His Kind , McCullough captures Kershaw as only he can, with graceful prose and lively details that illustrate the forces driving one of baseball's towering figures. With rare access to the private world of a very public--but very guarded--superstar, McCullough offers a stirring portrait of what it means, what it takes, and what it costs to be an all-time great."-- Tyler Kepner, author of K: A History of Baseball in Ten Pitches and The Grandest Stage: A History of the World Series
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