The Pitch That Killed

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.""

Famous quotes containing the words pitch and/or killed:

    “I can’t earn my own living. I could never make anything turn into money. It’s like making fires. A careful assortment of paper, shavings, faggots and kindling nicely tipped with pitch will never light for me. I have never been present when a cigarette butt, extinct, thrown into a damp and isolated spot, started a conflagration in the California woods.”
    —Margaret Anderson (1886–1973)

    “Planted deeper than roots,
    This chiselled, flung-up faith
    Runs and leaps against the sky,
    A prayer killed into stone....”
    —Philip Larkin (1922–1986)