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Death in the Strike Zone J.T. Geissinger the stories in <i>Cowboys andBy: Thomas W. Gilbert He threw the first fastball. The first curveball. He was baseball's first star and its first tragedy. In Death in the Strike Zone, acclaimed historian Thomas W. Gilbert uncovers the forgotten life of James Creighton, the first American ballplayer to become a national sensation. On the eve of the Civil War, Creighton invented something utterly new in baseball modern pitching. Creighton was so dominant, so mesmerizing, that the