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Keep Your Eye On The Ball: The Science and Folklore of Baseball
by Robert Watts, A.Terry Bahill
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 071672104X
- ISBN 13
- 9780716721048
- Seller
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WINFIELD, Kansas, United States
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About This Item
New York, NY: W.H. Freeman and Company, 1990 W.H. Freeman and Company, New York. 1990. Hardcover. First Printing by Line Number. Book is tight, square, and unmarked. Book Condition: Very Good; light shelfwear to head, tail, tips, and midpoint of rear board bottom edge. DJ: Very Good; NOT Price Clipped ($18.95); slight sunfading to spine; light rubbing to panels. Blue cloth boards and spine with bright silver lettering on the spine and front board; debossed pitcher and batter on front board. Decorative endpapers. 213 pp 8vo. The authors, engineers by avocation, have devised a series of experiments that put some of baseball's most cherished myths to the test of scientific scrutiny such as; why the curveball curves, the flyball and the effect of backspin and topspin; hand-eye coordination; and the scientific analysis of baseball flight. The authors combine absorbing anecdotal examples, historical developments, and unique tables and charts with scientific fact, to weave an engaging narrative. A clean very presentable copy.
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- Bookseller
- Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 014117
- Title
- Keep Your Eye On The Ball: The Science and Folklore of Baseball
- Author
- Robert Watts, A.Terry Bahill
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- ISBN 10
- 071672104X
- ISBN 13
- 9780716721048
- Publisher
- W.H. Freeman and Company
- Place of Publication
- New York, NY
- Date Published
- 1990
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾
- Keywords
- baseball, scientific analysis of baseballs in motion, baseballs in flight, batted baseballs, thrown baseballs, curveballs, knuckleballs, hand-eye coordination, batted balls,
- Bookseller catalogs
- Baseball;
Terms of Sale
Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
30 day return guarantee, with full refund including original shipping costs for up to 30 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or in the unfortunate event, damaged. All books are packed and wrapped with care to avoid shifting during shipment and edge/tip strikes during the mailing process.
About the Seller
Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
Biblio member since 2018
WINFIELD, Kansas
About Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
Walnut Valley Books is a small independent home-based business with the bulk of my holdings being of an American military nature covering everything from the Revolutionary War to the current wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. I also have holdings of books on the Middle East, the southwestern United States (New Mexico especially, Kansas related titles, Oklahoma related titles, and other regionally specialized books. All of my holdings are hand-selected to be good quality books of interest to the reader, historian, or the collector. In addition to the above, you will also find a wide range of other topics such as Medical, US History, autobiographical, biographical, sports, women's studies, and many other eclectic topics.
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- Cloth
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- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Price Clipped
- When a book is described as price-clipped, it indicates that the portion of the dust jacket flap that has the publisher's...
- Shelfwear
- Minor wear resulting from a book being place on, and taken from a bookshelf, especially along the bottom edge.
- Tail
- The heel of the spine.
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