edward prindle (48 resultados)

PAP. Condición: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

Paperback. Condición: Very Good. No Jacket. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 2.25.

Paperback. Condición: Good. No Jacket. Former library book; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 2.16.

Paperback. Condición: As New. No Jacket. Pages are clean and are not marred by notes or folds of any kind. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 2.29.

Condición: New.

Soft cover. Condición: Fair. Original 1910 imprint. A fair copy only with 7 of the 64 pages covered by early newsprint articles on curve ball pitching glued in. A light scuff and very slight wear to the covers with some browning to the facing pages from the glue. Still a clean and tight copy.

Hardcover. Condición: VG. Color printed wraps. Beautiful copy with faint opaque stain on front cover. 96 pages. Illustrated throughout with old time equipment. Scarce early baseball ephemera. Reach played baseball for the Philadelphia Athletics and helped form the Philadelphia Phillies. Scarce.

Softcover. Condición: Near Fine. Reprint (originally published in 1888). 12mo. 64pp. Diagrams; illustrated ads. Printed green and red wrappers. Small stains and light wear on the wrappers, very good or better. Early work on the curve. *OCLC* locates several editions, but no copies of this one.

Original Wraps. Condición: Near Fine. First Edition. First edition. Publisher's off-white wrappers, printed in black. Near fine, with a light soiling to front wrapper, previous owner's name in pen to top of front wrapper, and some very light vertical creasing to wrappers. Overall, a very well- preserved 19th century baseball guide. In The Art of Curve Pitching, Prindle explains the mechanics of pitching a curveball in simple yet detailed language. He starts off by outlining the two "indispensable conditions" for pitching a curveball: "the resistance offered to the ball by the air" and "a rotary motion of the ball on its own axis." Some chapters in the pamphlet are: "The Theory," "The Practice," "Reasons for Failure," "Accuracy in Pitching," and "Strategy." Other baseball books written by Prindle include The Art of Batting (1888), Baseball and How to Play It (1896), and The Art of Base Running (1890).

Soft cover. Condición: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. A very early baseball book, that mentions the recent "introduction of the curve in pitching." Reach was then the sole maker of the baseball used by the American League.

LeatherBound. Condición: New. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. Bound in genuine leather with Satin ribbon page markers and Spine with raised gilt bands. A perfect gift for your loved ones. Reprinted from 1890 edition. NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr'd reprint. Illustrations, Index, if any, are included in black and white. Each page is checked manually before printing. As this print on demand book is reprinted from a very old book, there could be some missing or flawed pages, but we always try to make the book as complete as possible. Fold-outs, if any, are not part of the book. If the original book was published in multiple volumes then this reprint is of only one volume, not the whole set and contains approximately 43 pages. IF YOU WISH TO ORDER PARTICULAR VOLUME OR ALL THE VOLUMES YOU CAN CONTACT US. Resized as per current standards. Sewing binding for longer life, where the book block is actually sewn (smythe sewn/section sewn) with thread before binding which results in a more durable type of binding. Language: English.

paper. Condición: good. First. A rare vestige of the early days of baseball. A fragile but fascinating booklet from the earliest years of baseball about the "art" of throwing a zigzag curve. Good, rear cover loose. One staple holding the rest of the pages together. An ad for the "Spalding League Ball" on the rear cover. Published 14 years after the start of the National League, the "senior" major league. We find an 1895 version of this book in the Baseball Hall of Fame, but not this earlier 1890 edition, which we believe is the true first. The ART Of ZIGZAG CURVE PITCHING. A Book of Instructions for All Classes of Players, Embracing Both Theory and Practice of the Art Milton, Conn: Published by the Author, 1890. 1st Printing. Printed self-wrappers. Last leaf detached. A Good copy of this rare survivor. 8 pp. 5-7/8" x 3-1/2" The booklet attempts to explain the physics behind not just a regular curve ball, but a zig-zag or compound curve ball. The author explains at length the techniques and rotational dynamics of throwing a ball so that it not only spins around its axis, but also rotates around the poles, to acheive a tricky wobbling pitch. "in order to produce a compound curve the direction of the motion of the rotation bust be reversed or changed." I know of no pitcher today who employs such a pitch. OCLC records just two institutional holdings of this work [Baseball HOF; BYU].