K: A History of Baseball in Ten Pitches

By: Tyler Kepner

Narrated by: Tyler Kepner

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • From The New York Times baseball columnist, an enchanting, enthralling history of the national pastime as told through the craft of pitching, based on years of archival research and interviews with more than three hundred people from Hall of Famers to the stars of today.

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, pitchers have never stopped innovating.

In K: A History of Baseball in Ten Pitches, Tyler Kepner traces the colorful 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 passion for the game, Kepner brings readers inside the minds of combatants sixty feet, six inches apart.

Filled with priceless insights from many of the best pitchers in baseball history--from Bob Gibson, Steve Carlton, and Nolan Ryan to Greg Maddux, Mariano Rivera, and Clayton Kershaw--K will be the definitive book on pitching and join such works as The Glory of Their Times and Moneyball as a classic of the genre.

a weave of stories

this is kind of a love hate description. I liked that he was the stories of the pitches into the lives of the pitchers But the effects became confusing and hard to follow.
I really like to the content.

Very technical review on pitching

All era's are tackled not just modern day or the old days. Entertaining. I would recommend!

Can listen to multiple times

Great listen for the baseball fan . I've listened to it multiple times now. it's nice easy listening when you are tired of work and politics

Tyler Kepner is a master storyteller.

Tyler Kepner is a master storyteller. His extensive research and passion for the game is unmatched in this must-buy book/audio for any baseball fan.

Excellent Book

Loved the breakdown and relation to baseball pitchers and situations. You’re brought into pitcher struggles and pitcher triumphs.