The Crooked Pitch : The Curveball in American Baseball History
by Quigley, Martin
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- See description
- ISBN 10
- 0912697083
- ISBN 13
- 9780912697086
- Seller
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Bordentown, New Jersey, United States
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About This Item
Chapel Hill, NC, U.S.A.: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 1984. First edition. Small quarto, cloth, 194 pps. with index; profusely illustrated. The history of baseball's "great equalizer", the curve ball. From it's alleged invention by Arthur "Candy" Cummings, a Brooklyn player in the pre-professional era, the author traces the development and impact of breaking pitches (legal and illegal) on America's National Game. Herein we learn of the "honest" curves such as the screwball, knuckleball, slider, forkball, slip pitch, Satchel Paige's Hesitation Pitch and the eephus ball; but also we have the spitter, mud ball, shine ball, emery ball, phonograph-needle ball and other "dishonest" variants. You may not have thought of chewing slippery elm bark while on the mound but we guarantee that used correctly, it will make your balls drop. Fine in price clipped jacketwith a 1" closed tear bottom right front panel.
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- Bookseller
- The Old Book Shop of Bordentown (ABNJ) (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- D502
- Title
- The Crooked Pitch : The Curveball in American Baseball History
- Author
- Quigley, Martin
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0912697083
- ISBN 13
- 9780912697086
- Publisher
- Chapel Hill, NC, U.S.A.: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 1984
- Place of Publication
- Chapel Hill
- This edition first published
- 1984
- Keywords
- BASEBALL HISTORY SPORTS RECREATION, PITCHING, CANDY CUMMINGS, 0912697083
- Bookseller catalogs
- Baseball;
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The Old Book Shop of Bordentown (ABNJ)
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About the Seller
The Old Book Shop of Bordentown (ABNJ)
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Bordentown, New Jersey
About The Old Book Shop of Bordentown (ABNJ)
The Old Book Shop of Bordentown is a general used/rare bookshop open to the public Tues.-Sunday 11AM to 5PM (8 PM on Fridays). 10,000 books on premises with another 25,000 in stock. Areas of speciality include baseball, New Jersey, American literature, mysteries. Member, ABAA, ILAB,Antiquarian Booksellers of New Jersey. Located in historic Bordentown City, New Jeresy (est. 1682).
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