“Off Speed” by Terry McDermott, tracks the evolution of pitching from its earliest days, when the ball was thrown underhanded, to the modern science of hurling one at virtually superhuman speeds. McDermott describes nine pitches, players and coach interviews. McDermott frames his book around the nine innings of a perfect game; here it’s the example of Felix Hernandez of the Seattle Mariners threw in 2012.
An ideal counterpart is “Almost Perfect” by Joe Cox. As that baseball fanatic Tolstoy almost wrote, “All perfect games resemble one another; each imperfect game is imperfect in its own way.” Cox analyzes the 16 games between 1908 and 2015 in which pitchers showed the best results.
Read more about new baseball books in our next publications.
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