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Book SynopsisAlthough very few baseball games end with a final score of one to zero, and such a score line might suggest a contest devoid of drama, nothing could be further from the truth. Since the 1876 inaugural season of professional baseball, many 1-0 games have proved as compelling as those featuring a parade of pitchers and a plethora of home runs. In Baseball's Iconic 1-0 Games Warren Wilbert has chronicled the tensest 1-0 nail-biters that have occurred since baseball's first professional season. Organized thematically, Baseball's Iconic 1-0 Games starts by examining 1-0 games achieved on Opening Day, with the finest selected from the more than 50 that have occurred since 1876. Regular season games, in which less than three percent result in a 1-0 score, are then detailed, including those games pitched by such greats as John Jocko Flynn and Randy Johnson. Championship play, from the first inning of playoffs to the final out of the World Series, has its own share of 1-0 drama, and this, too
Table of ContentsList of Abbreviations Acknowledgments To Begin With . . . 1 Opening Day 2 1-0: The Great Ones during Regular Season Play 3 1-0 Games at the Summit 4 No-Hit Wonders 5 The Titans 6 1-0 Marathons 7 Strange Bedfellows 8 In These Latter Days Appendix A: 1-0 No-Hit Pitchers Appendix B: Greatest at 1-0 Appendix C: Brooklyn 1, Chicago 0: 1890 Appendix D: The Perfect 1-0 Loss Appendix E: Other Venues, Other 1-0 Stars Selected Bibliography Name Index About the Author
