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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 baseball: 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, tal...more
Hardcover, 128 pages
Published
February 25th 2006
by Ivan R. Dee Publisher
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Dave Clark’s The Knucklebook was listed in the bibliography of the Tim Wakefield bio Knuckler and I knew immediately that I had to read it.
It’s a marvelous little book, providing a brief, but insightful look at baseball’s oddest pitch from a variety of perspectives: how to throw it, how to hit it, how to catch it, how to call it, among others. Clark’s writing is lucid and accessible; Phil Clark’s line drawings are illuminating and useful; several great pitchers are typically enigmatic ...more
It’s a marvelous little book, providing a brief, but insightful look at baseball’s oddest pitch from a variety of perspectives: how to throw it, how to hit it, how to catch it, how to call it, among others. Clark’s writing is lucid and accessible; Phil Clark’s line drawings are illuminating and useful; several great pitchers are typically enigmatic ...more
I am sickly obsessed with the knuckle ball, and knuckle ball pitchers, so this book was amazing to me. It also validates my obsession with the pitch by proving I'm not alone. I couldn't tell you have many hours I've wasted trying to throw this pitch with slightly unwilling friends and family. It's definitely a niche book, but!, if you happen to share the sickness, then you'll enjoy it as well.
No not the Knucklebook: it's just a knucklebook, focusing on technique and strategy, with lots of obvious advice for pitchers, umpires, catchers and batters. You'd think an enthusiast like Clark would dive and corkscrew and slowmo just like his favorite pitch, but nope: here you get the bland basics. I hope he (or someone) writes another book that includes more history, stats, and lore: even poor Wakefield and Niekro are rendered into namedropping and pithy quotes here.
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