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The Last Of His Kind: Clayton Kershaw And The Burden Of Greatness
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The Definitive Biography Of Dodgers Ace Clayton Kershaw, Based On Exclusive Interviews With Kershaw And More Than 200 Others, Examining The Genesis Of His Brilliance, His Epic Quest To Win The World Series, And His Singular Place Within The Evolving Baseball Landscapefrom The Former Los Angeles Times National Baseball Writer, Now A Senior Writer At The Athletic.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 Threetime Cy Young Award Winner, The First Pitcher To Win National League Mvp Since Bob Gibson, And A Surefire, Firstballot Hall Of Famer. Many Of His Peers Consider Him The Greatest Pitcher To Ever Climb Atop A Bigleague Mound.In An Age When Baseball Became More Impersonal, A Sport Altered By Adherence To Algorithms And Actuarial Tables, Kershaw Personified The Games 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 Games 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 Kershaws Path From A Boyhood Fractured By Divorce To His Development As One Of The Mostheralded Pitching Prospects In Texas History To His Emergence In Los Angeles As The Spiritual Heir To Sandy Koufax. But The Book Also Charts Kershaws Place In Baseballs Changing Landscape, As His Own Stubbornness Butted Against The Games Evolution. The Story Of Baseball In The 21St Century Can Be Told Through Kershaws 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 Signstealing Scandal At The Hands Of The Houston Astros. The Game Has Changed So Much During Kershaws 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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