K a history of baseball in ten pitches
"From the New York Times baseball columnist, a ... history of the national pastime as told through the craft of pitching, based on years of archival research and interviews with more than three hundred people from Hall of Famers to the stars of today"--Dust jacket flap.
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| Language: | English |
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New York :
Doubleday,
[2019]
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- The slider : a little itty bitty dot
- The fastball : velo is king
- The curveball : a karate chop with a ball
- The knuckleball : grabbing the wing of a butterfly
- The splitter : through the trapdoor
- The screwball : the Sasquatch of baseball
- The sinker : the furthest strike from the hitter's eyes
- The changeup : a dollar bill hooked on a fishing line
- The spitball : hit the dry side
- The cutter : at the end, it will move.
