02181cam a2200433 i 4500 384930018 TxAuBib 20190619120000.0 180725s2019||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2018016158 9780385541015 hardcover $28.95 0385541015 hardcover $28.95 9781101970850 1101970855 (OCoLC)1048027693 TxAuBib rda Kepner, Tyler. K : a history of baseball in ten pitches / Tyler Kepner. History of baseball in ten pitches. History of baseball in 10 pitches. First edition (hardcover - yellow spine - black and red letters.) New York : Doubleday, [2019] ©2019. xiv, 302 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier sti rdacontent rdamedia rdacarrier Includes bibliographical references (pages [283]-285) and index. "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. 20190619. Pitching (Baseball.) Pitchers (Baseball.) Baseball United States History. TXMLR