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03438aam a2200469Ii 4500 001 984727FCECB511E9BABD7B4D97128E48 003 SILO 005 20191012010028 008 190107t20192019nyuaf db 001 0 eng d 020 $a 1984883291 020 $a 9781984883292 035 $a (OCoLC)1081043219 040 $a TEFBT $b eng $e rda $c TEFBT $d TEFBT $d BDX $d TEFBT $d JQW $d INO $d JTH $d IP6 $d NYP $d IVJ $d LKC $d OCLCQ $d OCLCO $d KYC $d ILM $d IMD $d OCL $d CHILD $d JIW $d SILO 043 $a n-us--- 050 4 $a GV871 $b .K46 2019b 082 04 $a 796.357/22 $2 23 100 1 $a Kepner, Tyler $c (Baseball writer), $e author. 245 10 $a K : $b a history of baseball in ten pitches / $c Tyler Kepner. 246 30 $a History of baseball in ten pitches 250 $a First large print edition. 264 1 $a [New York] : $b Random House Large Print, $c [2019] 300 $a xx, 472 pages (large print), 16 unnumbered pages of plates : $b illustrations ; $c 24 cm 340 $n large print $2 rdafs 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (pages 443-447) and index. 505 0 $a 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 trap door -- 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. 520 $a 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. In K: A History of Baseball in Ten Pitches, Tyler Kepner traces the colorful stories and fascinating folklore behind the ten major pitches. Each chapter highlights a different pitch, from the blazing fastball to the fluttering knuckleball to the slippery spitball. Infusing every page with infectious passion for the game, Kepner brings readers inside the minds of combatants sixty feet, six inches apart. Filled with priceless insights from many of the best pitchers in baseball history including twenty-two Hall of Famers--from Bob Gibson, Steve Carlton, and Nolan Ryan to Greg Maddux, Mariano Rivera, and Clayton Kershaw--K will be the definitive book on pitching and join such works as The Glory of Their Times and Moneyball as a classic of the genre. 650 0 $a Pitching (Baseball) 650 0 $a Pitchers (Baseball) 650 0 $a Baseball $z United States $x History. 650 0 $a Large type books. 650 7 $a Baseball. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00827904 650 7 $a Pitchers (Baseball) $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01064892 650 7 $a Pitching (Baseball) $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01064898 651 7 $a United States. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01204155 655 0 $a Large type books. 655 4 $a Nonfiction. 655 7 $a History. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01411628 941 $a 1 945 $a lpt 952 $l BNPD611 $d 20210323022348.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=984727FCECB511E9BABD7B4D97128E48 994 $a C0 $b JIWInitiate Another SILO Locator Search