* Review: The Spitball/Knuckleball Book

February 23, 2009

From the Bleeding Cubbie Blue blog (say that three times fast).

Upshot:

One of the best things about this book is the large number of photos and drawings showing knuckleball grips — you’ll be surprised at how many different ones there are, and most of them don’t use knuckles at all, but grips with fingernails.

I had a few nitpicks about the editing in this book — former Cubs owner Charlie Weeghman is called “Weegham”, Hooton’s name is misspelled “Bert”, and right across from the title of the section on Pedro Ramos, a photo caption calls him “PADRO”, but otherwise, this book is an interesting read about an era that may be about to pass from the baseball scene.

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