bPitchers, the pitches they throw, and how they throw them -- these days it's the stuff of constant scrutiny, but there's never been anything like a icomprehensive sourcei for such information.b That's what preeminent baseball analyst Bill James and ESPN.com baseball columnist Rob Neyer realized over lunch more than a dozen years ago. Since then, they've been 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. The iGuidei also offers br ul liA dictionary describing virtually every known pitch liThe origins and development of baseball's most important pitches liTop ten lists best fastballs, best spitballs, and everything in between liBiographies of some of the great pitchers who have been overlooked liMore knuckleballers and submariners than you ever thought existed liAn open debate concerning pitcher abuse and durability liA formula for predicting the Cy Y