Clipping:A purported double curve
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| Date | Wednesday, August 10, 1881 |
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| Text | In the game on Thursday [8/4/81] Corcoran demonstrated, to the satisfaction of a number of experienced patrons of the game, that he could not only put one curve, but two, on the ball, giving it a king of serpentine motion. This was done not only once, but again and again. Thus, when the batsman discovered that it was an outcurver, and hit it accordingly, it suddenly changed to an incurve. In the seventh inning, for instance, he struck out Brouthers and Richardson in succession on this kind of delivery. Goldsmith has also acquired it, and its effectiveness is shown in the fact that on yesterday Buffalo got only four hits. He struck O'Rourke out on it in the sixth inning. They have been practicing it for some time under instructions from a scientific gentleman, an officer of the regular army, stationed here. He is a great admirer of the game, and, theoretically, demonstrated by the resolution of force that a double curve was possible. Its execution simply depends upon putting another force upon the ball which shall assert itself after that ball has gone a certain distance and has lost some of its speed. It is a very difficult ball to pitch, and it remains to be seen whether the pitchers can stand it. If they can maintain the effectiveness shown in the two games in which it has been tried. Detroit will have a hard time of it in the games to be played here this week., quoting the Chicago Times |
| Source | Detroit Free Press |
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| Submitted by | Richard Hershberger |
| Origin | Initial Hershberger Clippings |
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