The Pitch That Killed is a non-fiction baseball book written by Mike Sowell and published in 1989. The book concentrates on the 1920 major league season, especially the events surrounding Ray Chapman's death from a pitch thrown by Carl Mays.
It won the CASEY Award for best baseball book of 1989 and was selected as a New York Times "Notable Book of the Year."
Mike Sowell's book has been optioned by Come Aboard Productions. The production company is in development on a feature film based on the story from ""The Pitch That Killed.""
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To such a pitch my thought
That coming time can say,
“He shadowed in a glass
What thing her body was.””
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