TY - BOOK AU - Kepner,Tyler TI - K: a history of baseball in ten pitches SN - 9780385541015 PY - 2019///] CY - New York PB - Doubleday KW - Pitching (Baseball) KW - Pitchers (Baseball) KW - Baseball KW - United States KW - History N1 - Includes bibliographical references (pages 283-285) and index; The slider : a little itty bitty dot -- The fastball : velo is king -- The curveball : a karate chop with a ball -- The knuckleball : grabbing the wing of a butterfly -- The splitter : through the trapdoor -- The screwball : the Sasquatch of baseball -- The sinker : the furthest strike from the hitter's eyes -- The changeup : a dollar bill hooked on a fishing line -- The spitball : hit the dry side -- The cutter : at the end, it will move N2 - "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 ER -