The
Knucklebook------------------------------------------------------------
All You Ever Wanted To Know About
Baseball's Strangest Pitch
Now available in most bookstores
How To Throw it... Advanced Techniques... How To Coach It...
How To Umpire It... How to Watch It... How To Catch It...
Grips of The Pros... and more!
“There’s no pitch as magical as the knuckleball. Dave Clark is showing off the magician’s tricks but instead of breaking the illusion, he opens new doors. The knuckleball is given new life here, dancing through our minds as it dances through the air. Clark masterfully breaks down the pitch, the mindset, and could save the pitch from extinction with this important work.” --WILL CARROLL, author and definitive authority on "The Juice", and writer for Baseball Prospectus
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"Dave Clark
delivers a
resounding strike with his in-depth coverage of baseball's most
baffling pitch. In his time, even such a great hitter as
Mickey
Mantle hated to face knuckleball specialist Hoyt
Wilhelm."—JOHN KUENSTER, long-time editor of the Baseball
Digest
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"They
say that '40 is the
new 30.' If that's true, then I figure I've still got a shot at
becoming the next Hoyt Wilhelm. Step 1? Memorizing every single page of
Dave Clark's The
Knucklebook." –ROB NEYER, ESPN.com
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“If
there is anyone
alive who knows more about this ever-baffling, fluttering pitch than
Dave Clark, he is either retired from, headed to, or currently in the
Major Leagues on the strength of his knuckles. And even then, my
money’s on Dave.”--BEN McGRATH, writer for the New
Yorker
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The subtitle gets
it
right: the knuckleball is a very strange pitch. It is released with
very little velocity and drifts
toward home plate with very little
rotation. It seems subject to all manner of influences from
barometric pressure
to wind velocity and maybe even the gravitational
pull of the moon. Clark, a professional photographer with no
demonstrable connection to baseball beyond being a
fan, interviewed a
number of the knuckleball's greatest
practitioners, including Hoyt
Wilhelm, Wilbur Wood, Phil Niekro, and Tim Wakefield, the only major
leaguer
currently using the knuckleball as his primary
pitch. In this
thin little book, Clark explains why a knuckler knuckles
as well as
how to throw it, hit it, coach it, and ump it. It's nicely written,
well organized, well illustrated (with drawings
and diagrams), and
imbued with an engaging sense of whimsy. It's also scheduled for
publication in the spring, when
all the over-the-hill hurlers turned
civilians can try out Clark's techniques in that one last chance to
make the Big
Show. Charming fun for baseball fans. -- Wes
Lukowsky,
from the American Library Association's Booklist
magazine
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"Congratulations on the Knucklebook!" -- P.J. O'Rourke
(who claims he can't throw one)
National rock music act The Grab Brothers Band "...loves the Knucklebook"
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Publication: February 3rd, 2006, by Ivan R. Dee, Publisher
Price: $19.95
ISBN:1566636612
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Bonuses
for ebook buyers:
Use your included coupon to receive a free personalized
message from the author!
Sample note, .pdf format
Sample audio
.mp3
Sample video
.mp4
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Links to Knucklebook how-to
videos:
The very best tip to get you started.
Secrets
from the greats of the game.
Dave will be signing books and saying some cool things about the knuckleball at:
2/11: Bloomberg On The Ball, with Robert Goldsholl, Bloomberg Radio WBBR-AM 1130
2/27-3/4: WLPO-AM & WAJK-FM-- ten-minute spots several times per day
2/22: Stevens Public Library Ashburnham, MA 7:00 P.M.
(autographed copies available for purchase)
2/23: Tatnuck
Bookseller Westboro, MA 6:00 P.M.
6/11: Borders Keene 30 Ash Brook Rd. Keene NH 3 P.M.
Two-page press release, Word format download.
For more web-based goodies about the knuckleball, visit KnuckleballHQ
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