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Knuckler: My Life With Baseball's Most Confounding Pitch (2011)

by Tim Wakefield(Favorite Author)

3.43 of 5 Votes: 3

ISBN

0547517696 (ISBN13: 9780547517698)

languge

English

genre

Memoir & Autobiography

publisher

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

review 1: Boston is an odd town. While it's one of the intellectual capitals of the world (Harvard, MIT, etc) it's a town that demands its sports stars to be tremendously talented AND hugely humble. It's a sort of blue collar attitude by white color fans. Tim Wakefield might as well be the paragon of Boston Sports Stars. The knuckleball is the antithesis of the fastball. It's unpredictable where the fastball is overpowering. The knuckleball confounds both the pitcher and the batter. It's got a mind of its own. The mental fortitude that Wakefield had to have to not just live and die by the pitch but do it until he was 44 was amazing. His was truly an underdog story with many a time of putting the team before himself. Great story, better man.
review 2: A decent retelling o... moref a great man's career in baseball. Though Tim Wakefield is listed as the author he seems more of a consultant adding a few little details for flavor here and there. Tony Massarotti is the true author here and he never misses a chance to talk about how crazy and wild the knuckleball is. So much so that it starts to annoy you and get's compared to every tumultuous period of Tim's career. I am a serious Red Sox fan who happens to live near Salem VA and saw Tim pitch for the Salem Buccaneers in the minors. He has always been one of my favorites and his career is a testament to loyalty and determination. Off the field he is a humanitarian with a big heart for fans and the city of Boston. If you're a baseball fan you'll at least enjoy some of the stories and if you're a Red Sox fan you will ride the emotions of the last 15 years of the Red Sox and the parts Tim played in all of it. If you are neither of these things you may want to look elsewhere. less

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