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The Neyer/James Guide to Pitchers: An Historical Compendium of Pitching, Pitchers, and Pitches Paperback – June 15, 2004

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Preeminent baseball analyst Bill James and ESPN.com baseball columnist Rob Neyer compile information on pitches and their origins, nearly two thousand pitchers, and more in this comprehensive guide.

Pitchers, the pitches they throw, and how they throw them—they’re the stuff of constant scrutiny, but there's never been anything like a comprehensive source for such information…until now. Bill James and Rob Neyer spent over a decade compiling the centerpiece of this book, the Pitcher Census, which lists specific information for nearly two thousand pitchers, ranging throughout the history of professional baseball.

Their guide also includes a dictionary describing virtually every known pitch, biographies of great pitchers who have been overlooked, and top ten lists for fastballs, spitballs, and everything in between. James and Neyer also weigh in on the debate over pitcher abuse and durability, offer a formula for predicting the Cy Young Award winner, and reveal James’s Pitcher Codes. Learn about the origins and development of baseball’s most important pitches and more knuckleballers and submariners than you ever thought existed!

Baseball’s action always starts with the pitchers. Begin to understand them and join in on entertaining debates while having a great deal of fun with the history of the game that captivates so many with this one-of-a-kind guide.
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Bill James made his mark in the 1970s and 1980s with his Baseball Abstracts. He has been tearing down preconceived notions about America’s national pastime ever since. He is currently the Senior Advisor on Baseball Operations for the Boston Red Sox, as well as the author of The Man from the Train. James lives in Lawrence, Kansas, with his wife, Susan McCarthy, and three children.

Rob Neyer has written about baseball for ESPN.com since 1996 and appears regularly on ESPNews. He has written four baseball books, including The Neyer/James Guide to Pitchers (with Bill James) and Rob Neyer’s Big Book of Baseball Lineups. His website, RobNeyer.com, contains additional material related to these and his other books.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Touchstone; Original ed. edition (June 15, 2004)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 496 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0743261585
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0743261586
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.86 pounds
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 7.5 x 1.24 x 9.25 inches
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Cornell Hurd
5.0 out of 5 stars absolutely wonderful
Reviewed in the United States on June 20, 2014
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Once again, these two men give you a look at a side of the game not normally explored. Their books are incredibly easy to read and draw you in immediately. Bill James gave me the game back, years ago. I've only recently discovered Rob Neyer, but I'm purchasing everything of his I can find. I've never seen a book like this one...an amazing amount of effort to document as many pitchers and their "stuff" as possible.
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R. jonas
5.0 out of 5 stars Best in class
Reviewed in the United States on September 14, 2019
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Jamesian outlook and style .
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Jeff Bullock
3.0 out of 5 stars Maybe I Expected Too Much
Reviewed in the United States on June 27, 2007
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In reading this book, you can see the differences between the two writers - in fact, gimme a sentence or two and I can probably tell you which one wrote what - but I think I expected a little too much from this book. Obviously, info on what pitches a pitcher used during his career is subject to availability and maybe I expected Neyer, and especially James, to come up with more info than they did - it is mainly newspaper quotes and maybe just a handful of direct quotes from the pitchers themselves, via e-mail. I thought the chapters on each type of pitch was interesting in how they ranked pitchers and how those pitches differed but I can't help but think they were just filler, done only to probably fill out the book - I was hoping there would be more pitchers listed than there were in the book but I guess only so much info was available to them.
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Pete
4.0 out of 5 stars Neat little book
Reviewed in the United States on December 17, 2009
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This is a much needed book, but is not 100% complete and should be viewed as a work in progress. I liked the section on pitches in the beginning but would like to see more info such as when, when and where various pitches are used. For example most pitchers only throw changeups low and away to opposite handed batters. Why is that? Where does a pitcher aim curveballs to both left and right handed batters? Why? Also a note to the author if there is ever another update: In the book 'Inside Baseball' by Greg Garber,(1994 and revised in 1996) Tommy John states in addition to his sinker and curve he throws a slider, forkball and changeup and stated his fastball was clocked at 84. It doesn't specify but I assume he was referring to the end of his career. Also, the book has a full page photo of him on the mound for the Yankees throwing the ball with a wide forkball grip. His website states "I have four basic pitches: fastball, curve, slider and change-up...plus eight illegal ones."
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dlm
5.0 out of 5 stars Five Stars
Reviewed in the United States on April 11, 2015
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As always James and Neyer offer offer unusual and interesting insight. This book is for the fan who enjoys an in-depth look at baseball.
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Daniel Oconnor
1.0 out of 5 stars Major Disappointment
Reviewed in the United States on June 17, 2004
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I enjoy most of Mr. James' books, though they can drive you up the wall sometimes like Win Shares, which would have been nice to be more in an encyclopedia format (players careers alphabetically). I never really cared what pitches were thrown by what pitchers, especially by no names from say 1926. Mr. Neyer's 'Big Book of Baseball Lineups" and Mr. James' Historical Aspects are fine, but this book is getting trivial (wow we looked at September 1945 Baseball magazine and they said Emmett O'Neill threw this or whatever). Who really cares. This is like Bill James' Stats Handbook and Source Books published back in the late 90's. They were monstrosities of too much useless info. I hope that their next collaboration is more interesting and inspiring.
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roseramsey
5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent
Reviewed in the United States on February 18, 2013
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Good book! References many pitchers and the pitches they threw. Very thorough. Would recommend to any baseball fan or stat geek.
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James Mowry
2.0 out of 5 stars Maybe okay as a reference, then again maybe not - certainly not a fun read
Reviewed in the United States on July 14, 2023
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The meat of this book, a supposed accounting of the pitches thrown by all major leaguers with a certain threshold of experience up to 2003, is so-so at best. There's just too much that is uncertain or contradictory to be useful, and given the ambition of the authors, this is very damning. The rest of the book consists of a section describing all types of pitches--but frequently confessing ignorance about which pitch was actually which, a random set of write-ups about a few pitchers, some of whom you will have never heard of, and more statistical-focused musings, but again, rather mediocre. All in all, very disappointing. James is such a god of sabermetrics, that he can pretty much get away with rambling on about whatever strikes his fancy. Neyer is a bit more focused, but still prone to a lack of precision in his writing.
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D. Fast
5.0 out of 5 stars in great shape.
Reviewed in Canada on May 18, 2018
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Exactly what i was looking for; and, in great shape.
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