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The book recounts the history of baseball through anecdotes about iconic pitches and interviews with pitchers such as Hall of Famers Steve Carlton, Bob Gibson and Nolan Ryan, as well as pitchers like Jamie Moyer and J.R. Richard. It also describes the mechanics of pitching, and its centrality to the game of baseball.
In 2019, he published his first book K: A History of Baseball in Ten Pitches. The book received mostly positive reviews from critics, and was praised for its writing style and informativeness. [5] [6] Paul Dickson of The Washington Post called it "well-written, anecdote rich and filled with seldom-shared insights by players."
The Casey Award (stylized as CASEY) is an annual literary award that has been given to the best baseball book of the year since 1983.The award was created by Mike Shannon and W. J. Harrison, editors and co-founders of Spitball: The Literary Baseball Magazine because, up until then, there was no award given to authors and publishers of distinguished baseball literature; it is considered to be ...
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From fastball to sweeper to splitter, here's everything baseball fans today need to know about pitch classification Identifying baseball pitch types in 2023: A modern field guide to MLB’s ...
He was 5–0 against the Yankees' division rival Red Sox and finished the season 17–8 with a 3.79 ERA, and was second in the AL with 211 strikeouts. In 2005, The Sporting News published an update of their 1999 book Baseball's 100 Greatest Players. Johnson did not make the original edition, but for the 2005 update, with his career totals ...
By pitch data, however, Greene was something else. His four-seam fastball averaged 100.2 mph and topped out at 102.0 mph, with Dodgers hitters whiffing 13 times on 28 swings, in addition to 10 ...