The Knucklebook: Everything You Need to Know About Baseball's STrangest Pitch--the Knuckleball

Clark, Dave

ISBN 10: 1566639697 / ISBN 13: 9781566639699

Published by Ivan R. Dee, Chicago, 2012

About this Item

Ex-library. 124 pages. Illustrated with drawings. Size: 5.5 x 8.5.

Seller Inventory # 75868

Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Knucklebook: Everything You Need to Know About Baseball's STrangest Pitch--the Knuckleball
• Publisher: Ivan R. Dee, Chicago
• Publication Date: 2012
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1566639697
• ISBN 13: 9781566639699
• Binding: Soft Cover
• Edition: 1st PB Ed.
• Condition: Very Good
• Book Type: Baseball--pitching Techniques

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Synopsis

This little book will teach you all you need to know about the most frustrating yet entertaining pitch in baseball: the knuckleball. It makes batters look foolish when it works; it embarrasses pitchers when it doesn't...or if it works too well. It humiliates catchers and umpires. It confounds spectators. Dave Clark has spent most of a lifetime studying the knuckleball, talking to the major league pitchers who have thrown it, and throwing a few of his own. His book explains the strange workings of the pitch and how it's used, no matter what your interest―whether you're a pitcher, batter, catcher, umpire, coach, spectator, or parent of any of the above. Everything Mr. Clark demonstrates in The Knucklebook is carefully illustrated with line drawings, so if you're an average high school pitcher who can throw strikes, you'll be able to throw a knuckleball exactly like a legendary Hall of Famer. You'll find appropriate and hilarious comments from those who have experienced the game of baseball as it's been affected by the wandering floater. Like those who throw the knuckler, all this information was scattered to far-flung corners of the baseball world until Mr. Clark gathered and compiled it. Reading his little book, you'll end up less mystified and more enlightened about this antic pitch. Or, like the pitch itself, you can just ride the breezes and enjoy the dancing flight from beginning to end. With 51 black-and-white line drawings.

About the Author

Dave Clark is a professional photographer and has been a woodworker, ceramic furnace operator, car salesman, skydiving instructor, radio announcer, parachute designer, chemical batch maker, forklift operator, hockey referee, produce deliverer, comedy writer, Zamboni driver, and amateur open-mike comedian. But mostly he has been the world's greatest collector of knuckleball lore. He lives with his wife and two children in Barre, Massachusetts.