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Sam McDowell

The Saga of Sudden Sam

2022

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6: Better Pitcher, Bigger Boozer S. 41-49

„… inside and just above his hands that he would loop under the pitch with his bat. Once I started pitching …” „… called a pitch.I did have a control problem psychologically before 1964. But I began learn-ing to control …” „… prepared for my next start and while I was pitching. There is some logic to that. Heck, Pirates pitcher …”

7: The Battle with Birdie S. 50-61

„… era are often removed from games when they reach one hundred pitches—I had thrown twice that many. I …” „… innings pitched) rate of my career in 1968 when Dark allowed me to take responsibility for pitch selection …” „… pitches about the time Sports Illustrated splashed a photo of me, mouth wide open as I fired one to the …”

5: The Debut S. 33-40

„… shouldn’t be out there as a caddy for a rookie pitching.”In order for a pitcher to master control and …” „… understood nothing of the strategy of pitch-ing. How could I get hitters out consistently and efficiently? I …” „… remember the pitch that sent me out of the game. It was a 2-2 fastball I fired to Clevelander and future …”

19: A Whole New Ballgame S. 139-150

„… eyes.“That’s Sandy Koufax,” I replied incredulously.“Who is that?” repeated the pitcher.Koufax was like Dick …” „… opportunity today pitching under these requirements. And think of all the pitchers through-out history who …” „… the greatest pitcher in history, Sandy Koufax.One day I was standing in the hallway drinking my …”

8: Dark Brings Light S. 62-70

„… me to dictate my own pitch selection.Finally!Another benefit of the Dark hire was new pitching coach …” „… a teammate of Jim Fregosi and Bobby Knoop. They knew all about the drawbacks of signaling my pitches …” „… man calling my pitches as manager of the Indians in 1967. That it was my worst season was no …”

15: The Triumphs of Triumph S. 113-118

„… idea.Most promising was that I could impart wisdom from the school of hard knocks both as a pitcher and a …” „… every distraction, anything unrelated to the specific pitch or at- bat or play in the field. And the …” „… mission must be attacked with confidence.One example for a pitcher is to focus on the precise spot to …”

4: The Battle for Sam McDowell and Beyond S. 22-32

„… breaking pitches. It was no wonder that all sixteen major league teams made my parents an offer.What was …” „… watch me pitch. As a sophomore especially, but beyond as well, those visits had no effect on me. I did …” „… teams were notified that they C H A P t e r 42 4could pitch only one offer and that I and my parents …”

11: A Sour Bite of the Big Apple S. 84-0

„… when I resembled vintage Sam McDowell early in my return to the familiar role of a starting pitcher …” „… sustained the injury then could not pitch for three weeks.The Yankees would soon have been better off …” „… before the 1969 season. Among his recollections was his fear of facing me when I was scheduled to pitch …”

3: Unrecognized Greatness S. 16-21

„… they look at me like I have ten ears. After all, I was dominating hitters as few prep pitchers ever had …” „… in me as a pitcher. It was that I never gave it any thought.The other element was ignorance. It seems …” „… in turn allowed the Pirates to take notice. They summoned me to pitch batting practice before games …”

17: Expanding My Horizons S. 125-130

„… two teams.I was taken aback when their minor league director and major league pitch-ing coach asked me …” „… if I could help their pitchers with their physical approach and performance on the mound. It amounted …” „… curveball would not only blur my relationship with pitchers but usurp the authority of the coaches within …”

Index S. 165-170

„… Pirates. See Pittsburgh Piratespitch count, 50, 59pitch signaling, 43, 50–51, 62, 116pitching, science of …” „… , 37, 46, 52, 59, 85, 103; firearms collecting, 3, 60; as Giants pitcher, 78–83; growing up in …” „… Pittsburgh, 7–24; hobbies, 60, 130, 161–63; as Indians pitcher, 33–39, 46–48, 50–60, 62–67, 71–78; injuries …”

9: Goodbye, Cleveland S. 71-77

„… scheduled to pitch the following day. Dark informed me that Horton was experiencing severe emotional …” „… remained powerless and had no choice but to play through pain. Former Yankees pitcher Jim Bouton wrote …” „… around midseason stating that major league hurlers needed to pitch through pain. He added that I was no …”

10: Hello, Misery S. 78-83

„… in 1963 and had not yet learned how to pitch.I knew how to pitch in 1972 but internal and external …” „… a great return for a pitcher perceived as injured property. So he kept it a secret to potential …” „… . Pitchers must perform confidently, intelligently, aggressively. I was not drunk on the mound but my …”

Preface

„… in strikeouts five times but also to lead the league in walks and wild pitches!Sudden Sam was …” „… . | Summary: “The candid autobiography of all-star pitcher “Sudden Sam” McDowell, whose alcohol-fueled life …” „… : LCSH: McDowell, Sam, 1942- | Pitchers (Baseball)—United States—Biography. | Baseball players—United …”

14: My New Life S. 104-112

„… . This was not about helping a pitcher get a sharper break on his curveball. This was about the mental …” „… his own. I like to think after my recovery that I helped him become a thinking man’s pitcher. The …” „… self- worth as a pitcher but he handled outside noise far better than I had at his age. He did not …”

2: The Melancholy Child S. 8-15

„… . was a more talented pitcher. He also excelled in football. But all his college scholarship offers were …” „… younger than his teammates was a wake- up call to my dad. He began grooming me as a pitcher. His knowledge …” „… me how I could have developed so many pitches to a major league level before I’d ever played …”

20: Sudden Sam, Mayday Malone, and a New Bride S. 151-158

„… , won twice for his role as a tremendously talented major league pitcher whose career had been hampered …” „… between us. I did not run a bar in Bos-ton, and he had been a relief pitcher. Another was that Mayday …” „… story were planted a decade earlier when I met Toronto Blue Jays pitcher Todd Stottlemyre, whose quite …”

16: Resistance and Acceptance S. 119-124

„… relationship with the game started a bit more than a decade after I retired as a pitcher. Kuhn, who would be …” „… as a hitter or pitcher as well as the mental effects such as fear, defensiveness, and self- doubt …” „… unduly intimidated by the pitcher’s abilities. Those thoughts intensify and become a greater obstacle the …”

21: Vices Bad and Good S. 159-164

„… never maximize my pitch-ing potential. They could not fathom in that era, nor could they have known …” „… maximize my potential as a person and pitcher, I never look back in regret. Never. I do not agonize. This …” „… pitching?But I was not about to quit all my other interests to focus solely on baseball. When one lives for …”

1: A Gun to My Head S. 1-7

„… philosophi-cal differences with as time passed about how to maximize my effectiveness as a pitcher—also chastised …” „… , transforming me into an aggressive, positive pitcher instead of a defensive one. The problem was it would not …” „… pitching prospect for the Cleveland Indians. My wife Carol Ann had left me and taken our baby daughter …”

About the Authors S. 171-178

„… 1 7 1ABOUT THE AUTHORSsam McDowell was a six- time American League All- Star pitcher whose career …”

13: Gateway to Sobriety S. 98-103

„… of a comeback. I was only thirty- seven and, heck, some pitchers thrive into their mid- forties. My …”

18: Going to BAT S. 131-138

„… broadcasts. He sounded distressed.Garagiola had received a call from Hall of Fame pitcher Ferguson Jenkins …”

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Pinnacle on the Mound

2022

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2 Turning It Over—a New Pitch, New Success: Mike McCormick S. 21-36

„… of a journeyman pitcher.”The likelihood of McCormick being named the National League’sbest pitcher …” „… bullpen coachGeorge Susce suggested McCormick throw more off-speed pitches.McCormick was receptive, but he …” „… told Susce he wasn’t pleased with hischangeup as a viable off-speed pitch.“Do you want to throw the …”

5 The Student of Pitching: LaMarr Hoyt S. 71-86

„… to be a littlebit higher. The park’s a little bigger—it’s just conducive for pitchers.”)He pitched …” „… innings.“Walk him. Just this once. Walk him.”Hoyt followed Lau’s advice. He walked Brett in four pitches.Before …” „… pitched well. Learning the slider fromhis father, Hoyt used the pitch his entire career in the major …”

10 Pitching Aggressively: Corey Kluber S. 165-174

„… foremost, before pitcher-catcher, and I think that I was able to see how much he cared aboutleading a …” „… doing.”Looking back on this season when he emerged as an elite pitcher,the moments that stand out to Kluber are …” „… ] 2017, I feel like I had a better grasp on [setting up pitches],”he says.He began the season by making …”

Conclusion S. 175-190

„… knuckleballer. LikeMcCormick devoting hours to practicing a new release for a new pitch,Dickey poured himself …” „… nextlevel. In some instances, they listened to a pitching coach’s suggestionabout how to pitch. Red Sox …” „… with others as a source of support.And finding that larger connection made them stronger pitchers.In …”

9 Climb the Mountain: R. A. Dickey S. 147-164

„… unconventional pitch emerging as the ace of the NewYork Mets pitching staff. Born and raised in Nashville, Dickey …” „… mastering the knuck-leball wasn’t as simple as learning a grip and presto! having a new pitch.The release …” „… harder than being a conventional pitcher.”As an illustration, Dickey points to the relative certainty a …”

4 A Season for the Ages: Ron Guidry S. 51-70

„… pitchers,primarily during spring training but also as the Yankees’ pitching coachin 2006 and ’07.“When I retired in …” „… , pitching coach Mark Connor asked Guidry towatch a young, slight pitcher.“I want you to talk to him,” Connor …” „… , the slider. Guidry added the pitch,and he developed into an effective relief pitcher, closing games …”

7 Labels Don’t Apply: Jack McDowell S. 101-122

„… pitcher.“When I came into the big leagues, Carlton was the one who basical-ly said this guy’s got good velocity …” „… morethan when I pitched. That pays off. It really does. I tried to instill that inthe pitchers I’ve dealt …” „… with me, recounting his memories from1993 when he was named the best pitcher in the American League …”

8 Finding 75: Barry Zito S. 123-146

„… , manager Art Howe sent himto the mound to warm up for the sixth inning. Before Zito threw a pitch,Howe …” „… maintained a friendly competition and pushed each otherto improve. And Zito loved watching Mulder pitch.“That …” „… point,what happens next—who cares? It’s all about that one pitch. That’s theideal, anyway.”He liked pitching …”

3 A Different Approach: Randy Jones S. 37-50

„… pitchselection.“I didn’t like shaking him off,” Jones says. “I’d be thinking of a pitch,a slider, and you know, like …” „… NationalLeague’s best pitcher.At San Diego Padres home games, you see Randy Jones. A display inthe team museum …” „… handed a plate.2CHAPTER 338No wonder why. True, he’s a Padres legend, the first Padres pitcherto pitch in …”

1 Impossible Realized: Jim Lonborg S. 1-20

„… ’67.”One was developing a new pitch.“In the winter of ’66, the ballclub asked me to go down to winter …” „… pitching style.”Applying Maglie’s lessons, Lonborg threw enough inside pitches thatwere so inside that they …” „… itin my glove so I would look at it every time I threw a pitch.”In the first game, the Red Sox narrowly …”

6 Settled In: Dennis Eckersley S. 87-100

„… executing his pitches.“A lot of guys, you could shit all over yourself with that [pressure].But, for me, it …” „… throwing a lot of pitches.”STARTING TO RELIEVINGEckersley discovered closing midway through his career …” „… pitcher as well as itsMost Valuable Player. He was surprised by the MVP honors, and, infact, he said …”

Preface

„… of the pitchers,and shared them for inclusion in the book. The library systems of Jeffer-son County …” „… andindex. | Summary: “In Pinnacle on the Mound, ten Cy Young Award-winning pitchers recog-nized as the very …” „… 9781538154823 (epub)Subjects: LCSH: Pitchers (Baseball)—Anecdotes. | Baseball—Anecdotes. | Cy Young …”

Bibliography S. 195-200

„… . “Sinker, Slider Bread and Butter Pitches for Jones.” Lethbridge Herald,June 11, 1978, 32.Antonen, Mel. “Cy …” „… , Dick. “Red Sox Pitcher Dennis Eckersley Announces His Retirement.” ProvidenceJournal-Bulletin, 1998 …” „… Consecutive Scoreless Innings in 9–1 Winover Rays.” June 13, 2012.O’Connor, Michael. “Lonborg Makes Pitch on …”

Index S. 201-206

„… , 26Piniella, Lou, 66Pinson, Vada, 25pitch counts, 31, 41, 44, 92pitch selection, 83, 89, 107, 134, 135 …” „… contact, pitching to, 44, 60–61contract negotiations, 17, 33, 43, 68,104–105control, 31, 44, 46, 89, 132 …” „… , 159,169, 171, 180, 185, 186pitching inside, 5, 15, 105, 134, 175, 178Pittsburgh Pirates, 29, 35player …”

Notes S. 191-194

„… . TURNING IT OVER—A NEW PITCH, NEW SUCCESS: MIKEMCCORMICK1. Author interview with Mike McCormick, August 15 …” „… PITCHING:LAMARR HOYT1. www.baseball-reference.com (accessed December 20, 2020). All statis-tics that follow are …” „… interview, July 24, 2019.5. Thole interview, July 24, 2019.10. PITCHING AGGRESSIVELY:COREY KLUBER1. Author …”

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A Dictionary for the Modern Conductor

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Appendix 5 Pitch Names and Their Translations into French, German, and Italian S. 405-406

„… APPENDIX 5Pitch Names and Their Translations into French, German, and Italian405English French …”

THE DICTIONARY S. 1-382

„… THE DICTIONARYA3A. The pitch that is sounded for the tuning of the orchestra. Can also designate a …” „… key of a composition, as in Sym-phony in A.A=440 Hz (Hertz). The standard tuning pitch for most …” „… en-sembles today except in continental Europe, where that pitch can be as high as A=444 Hz. “Hz” stands for …”

Appendix 4 Percussion Instruments and Their Translations S. 401-404

„… , instruments of definite pitch and instruments of indefinite pitch. In each category are idiophones, that is …” „… xucalho.Cuíca. A single-headed, wooden friction drum capable of many pitches, it has a thin stick mounted on the …” „… the drum near the attachment of that stick, changing the pressure and, conse-quently, the pitch …”

Appendix 1 Six Pieces That Changed Conducting S. 383-396

„… Kreutzer sat at a piano in front of the soloists to keep them on pitch and help with entrances. In the …” „… predomi-nant pitch is D-flat, enharmonically the same as the first pitch, C-sharp. Is Debussy suggesting a kind …” „… new sound world, a world of sonic pitched and non-pitched textures, music that no longer uses the …”

Preface

„… Appendix 5: Pitch Names and Their Translations into French, German, and Italian 405Appendix 6: Basic …”

Selected Bibliography S. 413-420

„… Washington Press, 1965.———. Perfect Pitch: A Life Story. New York: Schirmer Trade Books, 2002.Spitzer, John …”

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Generation und Sprachprofile im höheren Lebensalter

Series: Analecta Romanica

Volume 76 2013

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9. Intonation S. 149-192

„… Durchschnitt der Pitch Werte. 17 Eine detaillierte Übersicht zum Forschungsstand findet sich in …” „… Ebenen hinzufügt. Berücksichtigt werden break indices, pitch events, boundary tones, pitch accents …” „… zusammen mit den Daten zum Tonhöhenverlauf eingegeben werden (z. B. aus WinPitch oder aus PRAAT). Im …”

13. Vergleich der Sprachprofile S. 247-256

„… (TI) Einheitenlänge (TI) –0.30 0.03 PIm (TI) pitch range (TI) 0.32 0.02 Stimmhöhe (TI) Einheitenlänge …” „… zwischen dem Vorhandensein steigender Abschlusskonturen, und einem größeren pitch range, schließlich …” „… pitch range auffällt. Dabei sind die Einheiten alterstypisch kurz und liegen in der Nähe des …”

Bibliographie S. 341-368

„… male and Male Pitch». In: Language and Communication 9, 299–311. Henton, Caroline (1995): «Pitch …” „… ): «The Pro sogram. Transcription of prosody using pitch contour stylization based on a tonal perception …” „… Spoken Sentences». In: Journal of Gerontology 47/5, 350–356. WinPitch = Martin, Philippe (2005 …”

Register S. 369-372

„… 198 Pitch 166 Pitch range 167, 175, 177, 186, 187, 190, 248 Planungsprozess 216, 218, 260 Polyphonie …”

Anhang S. 265-340

„… , PId, IQR Länge der Einhei ten, pitch range (»average« und »ward«) 188 Fig. 12: Type Token Quotient …”

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Stefan Keym - Kreative Missverständnisse oder universale Musikprinzipien?

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Kreative Missverständnisse oder universale Musikprinzipien?

Series: Studien und Materialien zur Musikwissenschaft

Volume 131 2024

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Fabian C. Moss Transatlantic Transformations: On Neo-Riemannian Theories S. 367-377

„… directly taken from pitch-classset theory,11 enharmonic equivalence – in conjunction with the often tacitly …” „… voice-leadingparsimony.Both perspectives – either focusing on pitch-class sets or the transformations be‐tween them – are, of …” „… . There are, however, some differences betweenthe pitch-class-based and the transformation-based …”

Nathan John Martin Riemann, Rameau, and the Subdominant S. 71-96

„… describe as the “undertone” series. From the initial pitchC, Rameau’s account continues, the fundamental …” „… tunedbelow a given pitch.19) Rameau’s project, in Riemann’s telling, thus remains cruciallyunfinished: The …” „… , whereasC generates E and G. The whole collection of these pitches (together with the toniqueand its sons …”

Markus Neuwirth Kochs Geist aus Riemanns Händen? S. 113-126

„… . Norton 1968; ArthurKomar, Theory of Suspensions. A Study of Metrical and Pitch Relations in Tonal Music …”

Alexander Rehding Grieg am Grammophon, Riemann am Klavier S. 15-32

„… is used instead of the cylinder of the American instruments, Iobserved that the pitch of the music …”

Mario Carrozzo “When Germany tore the scepter”: Hugo Riemann and Italy S. 279-312

Thomas Christensen History in the Shadows of Theory: Riemann and Fétis as Historians of Music Theory S. 97-112

„… that in each such system the highest pitch ofartistic beauty has been reached, by the successful …”

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