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| I only got halfway through this one. I'm a closet baseball fan. I don't follow any teams but I enjoy watching a game (live, not on TV) now and then. This book looked like it would help me understand the game on a deeper level. It didn't. It's written for people who already know an awful lot of terminology. "The slider ... is a breaking ball, similar to the cut fastball but with a harder break. ...the slider's break is horizontal to the ground while the curve's break is vertical to the ground." (In other words, a curve ball doesn't curve, it drops -- like going down a steep slide. But a slider doesn't slide, it curves.) |
Baseball for Brain Surgeons and Other Fans