K: A History of Baseball in Ten Pitches Audiobook (Free)

From the New York Times baseball columnist, an enchanting, enthralling history of the national pastime as told through the craft of pitching, based on many years of archival analysis and interviews with an increase of than three hundred people from Hall of Famers towards the stars of today

The baseball is an amazing plaything. We can grasp it and hold it so many different ways, as well as the slightest calibration can change an ordinary pitch into a tool to thwart the best hitters in the world. Each pitch provides about K: A BRIEF HISTORY of Baseball in Ten Pitches its history, evolving through the years as the experts pass it right down to the next era. From the earliest days of the overall game, when Chocolate Cummings dreamed in the curveball even though flinging clamshells on a Brooklyn seaside, pitchers haven’t stopped innovating.

In K: A BRIEF HISTORY of Baseball in 10 Pitches, Tyler Kepner traces the multi-colored stories and fascinating folklore behind the ten major pitches. Each chapter highlights a different pitch, from the blazing fastball to the fluttering knuckleball to the slippery spitball. Infusing every page with infectious interest for the game, Kepner provides readers inside the minds of combatants sixty foot, six inches apart.

Filled with priceless insights from lots of the perfect pitchers in baseball history including twenty-two Hall of Famers–from Bob Gibson, Steve Carlton, and Nolan Ryan to Greg Maddux, Mariano Rivera, and Clayton Kershaw–K would be the definitive book on pitching and join such works as The Glory of Their Times and Moneyball being a classic from the genre.