Knuckleball
The History of the Unhittable Pitch
It took me a day to learn [the knuckleball] and a lifetime to learn how to throw it for a strike. This quote, by pitcher and coach Charlie Hough, is the best way to understand baseball's most baffling and mysterious pitch. Not even the best practitioners of the art of throwing a knuckleball know where it is going most of the time. As a pitch that floats and comes into the plate in what appears to be slow motion, it is miraculous that those who employ the pitch don't get creamed all over the park by batters who seem to know that it's coming. Including interviews with Hall of Famer Phil Niekro, former All-Stars Wilbur Wood and Tim Wakefield, as…
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- ISBN: 978-1-61321-766-5
- EAN: 9781613217665
- Produktnummer: 16624498
- Verlag: Simon & Schuster N.Y.
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2015
- Seitenangabe: 320 S.
- Masse: H22.9 cm x B15.2 cm x D3.0 cm 528 g
- Gewicht: 528
Über den Autor
Lew Freedman is the author of nearly 60 books on sports, including Clouds over the Goalpost and A Summer to Remember, and is the winner of more than 250 journalism awards. A veteran sportswriter, Freedman was formerly a staff writer for the Chicago Tribune and Philadelphia Inquirer, as well as other papers, and lives in Columbus, Indiana.
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