Title:
K : a history of baseball in ten pitches / Tyler Kepner.
ISBN:
9780385541015
9781101970850
Personal Author:
Edition:
First edition.
Publication Information:
New York : Doubleday, [2019]
©2019
Physical Description:
xiv, 302 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm
Contents:
The slider : a little 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.
Summary:
"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.
The baseball is an amazing plaything. We can grip it and hold it so many different ways, and even the slightest calibration can turn an ordinary pitch into a weapon to thwart the greatest hitters in the world. Each pitch has its own history, evolving through the decades as the masters pass it down to the next generation. From the earliest days of the game, when Candy Cummings dreamed up the curveball while flinging clamshells on a Brooklyn beach, pitchers have never stopped innovating. -- adapted from jacket
Program Information:
Accelerated Reader UG 7.3 19 504026
Genre:
Audience:
1070L Lexile
OCLC Number:
on1048027693
Availability:
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