Off speed
baseball, pitching, and the art of deception
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Word Count
47,750 words, Guess
Page Count
191 pages
Identifiers
- ISBN-100307379426
- ISBN-139780307379429
- Library of Congress Control Number2016035366
- OCLC Control Number962171825
- Better World Books9780307379429
and 1 more
- Open LibraryOL27235257M
Classifications
- DDC796.357/22
- LCCGV871 .M42 2017
- LCCGV871.M42 2017
Description
"A wonderfully informative, exuberant, and entertaining book--part sports history, part personal history--that explores America's romance with baseball through one 'perfect game' and the drama of pitching. In Off Speed, Terry McDermott weaves the fascinating story of baseball's 150-year hunt for the perfect pitch. Using the framework of a single game (9 chapters, 9 innings, 9 pitches), he explores the history of every type of pitch, combining the folk wisdom of the players with the enormous wealth of new data brought to the sport by the growing legion of statisticians who are transforming many of the sport's once sacred beliefs. As a lifelong baseball fan, McDermott approaches his subject with the love every fan brings to the park plus the expertise of an investigative journalist, exploring with irrepressible enthusiasm and curiosity both the technical side and the romance of the game"--
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