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Product Description From the New York Times baseball columnist, an enchanting, enthralling 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 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. Review "Tyler Kepner knows his stuff—by which I mean the plethora of possible assaults on the strike zone that have created the modern game: splitters, spitters, sinkers, sliders. It’s all here: Cy Young’s whistler; Sandy Koufax’s 12-to-6 curve; the fadeaway that made Matty famous before it became a screwball and revived Warren Spahn’s career. K is an education in the history, mechanics and language of pitching and as rich with detail as the craft it describes. This is inside baseball at its best. A must read for any fan who aspires to be in the know." --Jane Leavy, New York Times bestselling author of Sandy Koufax: A Lefty’s Legacy and The Big Fella: Babe Ruth and the World He Created “There has been so much good writing on the subject of baseball that you sometimes wonder if there can be a fresh way to go about it. But Tyler Kepner turns the trick. Analytical and anecdotal, insightful and entertaining, K is a welcome addition to the baseball bookshelf.” --Bob Costas"[An] instant classic. . .[Kepner] deftly weaves all these voices into a seamless narrative. . .K is even better than I'd hoped, and I suspect it will now take its place on all the lists of essential baseball books." --Rob Neyer, Casey Award-winning author of Powerball: Anatomy of a Modern Baseball Game “Kepner, the national baseball writer for the New York Times, has chosen a nifty conceit. He’s organized his history of the game around the 10 major types of pitches. . .The result is a fascinating tour of the sport as seen from the mound.” -- Robert Birnbaum, The Washington Post “No one celebrates the details of the game quite like Kepner, The New York Times baseball columnist, and for him to deconstruct the sport down to its most crucial yet arcane element — the art of pitching — is like Michelangelo explaining the brush strokes on the Sistine Chapel.” -- David Lennon, Newsday“You will love every single word of “K: A History of Baseball in Ten Pitches,”. . .I’ve never read a better love letter to the sport.” -- Mike Vaccaro, The New York Post“Make sure you pick up “K: A History of Baseball in Ten Pitches” by Tyler Kepner of the New York Times. Kepner, a former Globe intern, is the best baseball read in American newspapers today.” -- Dan Shaughnessy, Boston Globe"Kepner puts a new spin on baseball's history that will have even the most avid fans entertained as they learn something new in each chapter." --Publishers Weekly, starred review “For decades as a
