Off Speed: Baseball, Pitching, and the Art of Deception
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Longlisted for the PEN/ESPN Award for Literary Sports Writing.
The lively and fascinating story of baseball’s 150-year hunt for the perfect pitch.
In August 2012, Felix Hernandez of the Seattle Mariners pitched a perfect game against the Tampa Bay Rays in what Terry McDermott calls “one of the greatest exhibitions of off-speed pitches ever put on.” For McDermott, a lifelong fan and student of baseball, the extraordinary events of that afternoon inspired this incisive meditation on the art o...
The lively and fascinating story of baseball’s 150-year hunt for the perfect pitch.
In August 2012, Felix Hernandez of the Seattle Mariners pitched a perfect game against the Tampa Bay Rays in what Terry McDermott calls “one of the greatest exhibitions of off-speed pitches ever put on.” For McDermott, a lifelong fan and student of baseball, the extraordinary events of that afternoon inspired this incisive meditation on the art o...






















