K : a history of baseball in ten pitches / Tyler Kepner.
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TextEdition: First editionDescription: xiv, 302 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cmISBN: 9780385541015; 0385541015; 9781101970850; 1101970855Subject(s): Pitching (Baseball) | Pitchers (Baseball) | Baseball -- United States -- HistoryDDC classification: 796.357/22 LOC classification: GV871 | .K46 2018| Current library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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| Martha's Vineyard High School Library | 796.357/KEP (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 39844500052127 |
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| 796.357/BUCKLEY World Series / | 796.357/CAR The shift : | 796.357/GOL Fenway : an unexpurgated history of the Boston Red Sox / | 796.357/KEP K : | 796.357/KEP The grandest stage : a history of the World Series / | 796.357/MAR Cheated : the inside story of the Astros scandal and a colorful history of sign stealing / | 796.357/MNOOKIN Feeding the monster : how money, smarts, and nerve took a team to the top / |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [283]-285) and index.
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.
"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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