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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...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.3 - AR Pts: 19
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1070L
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The baseball is an amazing plaything. We can grip it and hold it so many different ways, and even the slightest calibration can turn an ordinary pitch into a weapon to thwart the greatest hitters in the world. Each pitch has its own history, evolving through the decades as the masters pass it down to the next generation. From the earliest days of the game, when Candy Cummings dreamed up the curveball while flinging clamshells on a Brooklyn beach,...
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What is it about a quality fastball that brings us to the edge of our seats? How is it humanly possible to throw faster than 100 mph? And the big question: Who is the fastest pitcher ever?
High Heat takes us on what filmmaker Ken Burns calls a "compelling, relentless, riveting" quest to deliver answers to the most intriguing questions about the fastball. Wendel provides insight into one of baseball's most exhilarating yet mystifying draws
...10) Knuckleball!
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"From acclaimed filmmakers Ricki Stern and Annie Sundberg this heartfelt, funny and deeply engaging film delves into the legendary subculture of the knuckleball and the brotherhood of men who share the drive, imagination and humility to throw baseball's slowest, most disrespected pitch."--Container.
The definitive documentary about the impossible-to-hit pitch, the knuckleball.
11) The Closer
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 15
Lexile measure
1010L
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English
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He is the man who has intimidated thousands of batters merely by opening a bullpen door. Mariano Rivera is also a man of God and family, whose contributions to charity and community ensure a meaningful legacy long after his time as the Closer is over. Now he tells his story in this widely acclaimed runaway bestseller: the championships, the bosses(including the Boss), the rivalries, and the sturggles of being a Lation baseball player in the United...
12) Baseball genius
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Baseball genius volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 8
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English
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"Jalen DeLuca loves baseball. Unfortunately, he can't afford to stay on the travel team. So, Jalen decides to take matters into his own hands and he sneaks into the home of New York Yankees star second baseman, James Yager, and steals a couple of balls. If he can sell them, he'll be able to keep himself on the team. Jalen's scheme goes wrong when Yager catches him. But Jalen has a secret: his baseball genius. He can analyze and predict almost exactly...
14) Baseball blowup
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
630L
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"Malcolm loves baseball and science, but his teammates are not always pleased with the ideas he comes up with--until he uses science to come up with a winning pitch, the knuckleball"--Title verso page.
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"A wonderfully informative, exuberant, and entertaining book--part sports history, part personal history--that explores America's romance with baseball through one "perfect game" and the drama of pitching. As a lifelong baseball fan, McDermott approaches his subject with the love every fan brings to the park plus the expertise of an investigative journalist, exploring with irrepressible enthusiasm and curiosity both the technical side and the romance...
16) The grip
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Marcus stroman volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
640L
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"Marcus, a young baseball pitcher, learns that perfect games only come with a lot of practice--and some strikeouts"--Title verso page.
17) Comeback
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In one of the most memorable moments of Major League Baseball, Dave Dravecky of the San Francisco Giants pitched a winning game less than a year after undergoing cancer surgery on his pitching arm. But his comeback was short-lived. Just five days after his winning game, Dravecky broke his arm-and would later lose it entirely as the cancer returned. Dravecky's true comeback would come later, as a bestselling author and inspirational speaker offering...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 15
Lexile measure
1010L
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English
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Mariano Rivera tells his story for the first time: the championships, the bosses (including the Boss), the rivalries, the struggles of being a Latino baseball player in the United States, and of maintaining Christian values in professional athletics. The twelve-time All-Star will discuss what it's like to run up to that mound with the game, or the season squarely on his shoulders.
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2015.
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"Including interviews with Hall of Famer Phil Niekro, former All-Stars Wilbur Wood and Tim Wakefield, as well as other famed knuckleballers, Lew Freedman breaks down the history of this infamous pitch, which it seems can be traced back to Chicago White Sox pitcher Ed Cicotte, as well as its effect on baseball as a whole"--
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 29
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English
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Pitchers are the heart of baseball, and John Feinstein tells the story of the game today through one season and two great pitchers working in the crucible of the New York media market. Tom Glavine and Mike Mussina have seen it all, and both entered 2007 in search of individual milestones and one more shot at The World Series--Glavine with the Mets, Mussina five miles away with the Yankees. The two veterans experience very different seasons--one on...
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