Preeminent baseball analyst Bill James and ESPN.com baseball columnist Rob Neyer compile information on pitches and their origins, nearly two thousand pitchers, and more in this comprehensive guide.Pitchers, the pitches they throw, and how they throw themtheyre the stuff of constant scrutiny, but theres never been anything like a comprehensive source for such informationuntil now. Bill James and Rob Neyer spent over a decade compiling the centerpiece of this book, the Pitcher Census, which lists specific information for nearly two thousand pitchers, ranging throughout the history of professional baseball. Their guide also includes a dictionary describing virtually every known pitch, biographies of great pitchers who have been overlooked, and top ten lists for fastballs, spitballs, and everything in between. James and Neyer also weigh in on the debate over pitcher abuse and durability, offer a formula for predicting the Cy Young Award winner, and reveal Jamess Pitcher Codes. Learn about the origins and development of baseballs most important pitches and more knuckleballers and submariners than you ever thought existed! Baseballs action always starts with the pitchers. Begin to understand them and join in on entertaining debates while having a great deal of fun with the history of the game that captivates so many with this oneofakind guide.

Binding: Paperback;496 pages; Publisher: Simon & Schuster; Classification: WSJT; Weight: 1050 g; Dimensions: 191 x 236 x 29

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