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High Heat: The Secret History of the Fastball and the Improbable Search for the Fastest Pitcher of All Time

Tim Wendel ’96

Da Capo Press

  • 2011 |
  • ALUMNI |
  • BOOK |
  • knight-wallace |

Tim Wendel’s sixth book is “High Heat: The Secret History of the Fastball and the Improbable Search for the Fastest Pitcher of All Time.” Wendel takes the reader through Cooperstown’s archives, an aerodynamic testing lab in Birmingham, Alabama and America’s ballparks in an exa mination of fastball mechanics and his quest to determine baseball’s fastest hurler. Featuring interviews with baseball greats and stories of the men who threw the ball, “High Heat” is a fast-paced journey through the past and present of our national pastime. “High Heat” was named an editor’s selection by New York Times Review of Books.

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