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The Knuckleball From Hell
The Knuckleball From Hell is a story of life, love, the New York Mets...and everything in between It's the Marx Brothers and Three Stooges meets baseball and the Mets in this highly irreverent and extremely quirky novel. Meet the New York City bus drivers-turned-Mets general managers, the Russian Cossack first baseman, the superhero Donutman, surfer dudes, a Rastafarian quantum physicist, Hare Krishnas, the movie "To Kill a Mockingbird" remade as a feel-good, light-hearted romantic comedy, and much, much more in this wildly hilarious book. It tells the story of a fictional New York Mets team that is horrendous and been driven into the ground by its bankrupt owner, while the protagonist is a high school phenom who only wants to pitch for the Mets. Unfortunately, he blows out his arm and his career is seemingly over, until he has a chance encounter with a Professor on the lam from chicken-wing eating Department of Homeland Security agents, enabling the kid to join the Mets with a new pitch - the Knuckleball From Hell..
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Keep Your Eye on the Ball: Curveballs, Knuckleballs, and Fallacies of Baseball, Revised and Updated
"Keep your eye on the ball!" may be good advice--but it is impossible to do. The batter can track the ball until it is about five feet in front of the plate, but then he falls behind because the ball is moving too fast.

In Keep Your Eye on the Ball, Robert G. Watts and A. Terry Bahill--engineers by vocation, baseball fans by avocation--have devised a series of experiments that put some of baseball's most cherished myths to the test. By applying physics, psychology, physiology, and other scientific principles to baseball, the authors have resolved, once and for all, some of the controversial issues that have intrigued fans for decades, including:

* Do curveballs really curve? Do fastballs rise?
* How do knuckleballs and spitballs work?
* What exactly happens when the ball hits the bat?
* Does corking the bat really help a hitter?
* Are aluminum bats more dangerous than wooden bats?
* Can certain physiological factors help predict success for a hitter?
* Why are more home runs being hit than ever before?
* Are today's players better than yesterday's?

Completely revised and updated to include recent statistics, new research, and additional historical commentary, Keep Your Eye on the Ball is a highly informative and entertaining guide to the science of baseball that all fans of the game--regardless of scientific background--will enjoy.
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The VITAMAN Effect
Big Jim Stronge - His father said he'd be the best pitcher ever. His mother believed he would take his place in the family line of concert pianists. After nineteen years in the majors, most ballplayers would consider themselves successful, but Jim Stronge doesn't. His choice of baseball over music haunts him. He's forty-one, and he still hasn't done what he always believed he would; win thirty games in a season and be remembered as the best pitcher ever. When the Yankees cut him, it seems like the end. All that remains of the dream is a scrap of paper on which his old coach writes the words, Vigil T. Mann, Sunshine, Alabama . The Vitaman Effect is a baseball story, but it's really about the spirits of the air, and the way we struggle to find our way in a world almost devoid of belief. As Vigil T. Mann says, - Sometimes things don go the way they should. That?s when you got to stop aimin, throw the ball and let the spirits take it from there. .
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The Spitball Knuckleball Book
Beautifully produced book. Over 240 photographs and Illustrations The Spitball Knuckleball BookHere you will find:* How the spitball was discovered.* Photographs showing how it was taught by the master spitballers.* Why the spitball was outlawed in 1920 --it had little to do with safety and everything to do with attendance.* The 23 pitchers allowed to continue throwing the spitball for the 1920 season and finally allowed to throw it until they retired.* The ten best illegal spitballers.* The dry spitter--the perfectly legal pitch that breaks just like a spitball.* The ten successful Major Leaguers who threw the dry spitter.* Photographs and descriptions of how the dry spitter was gripped and thrown.* How a young spitballer not put on the exempt list for 1920 learned the fingertip knuckleball from his plumber friend and took it to the Majors, where it is still used today.* The often bumpy careers of more than two dozen knuckleballers with photographs of most of their grips..
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