Breaking balls
Subtitle: a novel of baseball
By: by Paul Lebowitz.
Publisher: McFarland & Co.
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Jefferson, N.C
Language: eng
Number of pages: 228
Subjects: Minor league baseball -- Fiction.; Baseball players -- Fiction.; Baseball teams -- Fiction.; Northwest, Pacific -- Fiction.
Genres: Fiction.
Description: "Brett Samuels isn't the kind of pitcher that strikes fear in the hearts of opposing players. At not quite 6'0", not quite 175 pounds, he looks more a member of the grounds crew than of the pitching corps. With a semi-nimbus of curls emanating from beneath his cap, he cuts a figure that is equal parts defiant and hilarious, like a Napoleonic Max Patkin gazing angrily in at the signs. And he throws a fastball scarcely more stirring to dustmites than to minor league batters.

But he has a broad-sweeping curve and an off-the-table forkball, the kind of out-pitch most hitters say just isn't fair. And they're right." "Breaking Balls is the story of a sharp-tongued junkball pitcher from New York who, surrounded by vastly superior athletes and thriving on guile, wisecracks his way through the Northwest timber towns of the low minor leagues."--BOOK JACKET.