The Knucklebook: Everything You Need to Know About Baseball's Strangest Pitch—the Knuckleball

by Dave Clark

This little book will teach you all you need to know about the most frustrating yet entertaining pitch in the knuckleball. It makes batters look foolish when it works; it embarrasses pitchers when it doesn't...or if it works too well. It humiliates catchers and umpires. It confounds spectators. Dave Clark has spent most of a lifetime studying the knuckleball, talking to the major league pitchers who have thrown it, and throwing a few of his own. His book explains the strange workings of the pitch and how it's used, no matter what your interest—whether you're a pitcher, batter, catcher, umpire, coach, spectator, or parent of any of the above. Everything Mr. Clark demonstrates in The Knucklebook is carefully illustrated with line drawings, so if you're an average high school pitcher who can throw strikes, you'll be able to throw a knuckleball exactly like a legendary Hall of Famer. You'll find appropriate and hilarious comments from those who have experienced the game of baseball as it's been affected by the wandering floater. Like those who throw the knuckler, all this information was scattered to far-flung corners of the baseball world until Mr. Clark gathered and compiled it. Reading his little book, you'll end up less mystified and more enlightened about this antic pitch. Or, like the pitch itself, you can just ride the breezes and enjoy the dancing flight from beginning to end. With 51 black-and-white line drawings.

129 pages, Kindle Edition

Published March 16, 2012

Reviews

[Mike Barat · Rating 3 out of 5]

This is a good book that should have been better. At times this book would drive me crazy as I was reading it, because there's to many stories in this book where the writer Dave Clark would say this person told me such and such and than not say what the name of the person was. And now for the positive side of the scale. This book did have a lot of good stories from current and past knuckleball pitchers from the major leagues, from the minors, and even a few high school stories, and college baseball as well. If your a young guy or girl and want to learn how to throw the knuckleball or your just interested in how a knuckleball works than this book would be a great place for you to start. Also reading about baseball during the winter makes spring come faster.