Off Speed: Baseball, Pitching, and the Art of Deception Audiobook (Free)

Tracing the evolution of pitching and the pitcher’s art of deception, Terry McDermott tells the exciting story of baseball’s 150-season hunt for the perfect pitch. Using the framework of an individual game (nine chapters, nine innings, nine pitches), he explores the annals of every kind of pitch, combining the folk wisdom of the players with the tremendous wealth of brand-new data brought to the sport from the developing legion of statisticians who are transforming many of the sport’s once sacred values. Being a lifelong baseball fan, McDermott methods his subject with the love every fan brings to the recreation area plus the experience of a probing journalist, exploring with irrepressible excitement and curiosity both the science as well as the love of the game.