K : a history of baseball in ten pitches / Tyler Kepner.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kepner, Tyler (Baseball writer), author.

Contributor:

Class of 1924 Book Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

United States.

Pitching (Baseball).

Pitchers (Baseball).

Baseball--United States--History.

Baseball.

History.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

xiv, 302 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Doubleday, [2019]

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.

Even the slightest calibration can turn a baseball from 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. Kepner traces the colorful stories and fascinating folklore behind the ten major pitches, from the blazing fastball to the fluttering knuckleball to the slippery spitball. -- adapted from jacket.

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 283-285) and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Class of 1924 Book Fund.

ISBN:

9780385541015

0385541015

9781101970850

1101970855

OCLC:

1048027693