Copyright © 2019 by Tyler Kepner

All rights reserved. Published in the United States by Doubleday, a division of Penguin Random House LLC, New York, and distributed in Canada by Random House of Canada, a division of Penguin Random House Canada Limited, Toronto.

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Cover images: Topps® trading cards used courtesy of The Topps Company, Inc.

Cover design by John Fontana

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: Kepner, Tyler (Baseball writer), author.

Title: K : a history of baseball in ten pitches / Tyler Kepner.

Description: First edition. | New York : Doubleday, [2018] | Includes bibliographical references and index.

Identifiers: LCCN 2018016158 | ISBN 9780385541015 (hardcover) | ISBN 9780385541022 (ebook)

Subjects: LCSH: Pitching (Baseball) | Pitchers (Baseball) | Baseball—United States—History.

Classification: LCC GV871 .K46 2018 | DDC 796.357/22—dc23 LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/​2018016158

Ebook ISBN 9780385541022

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