Clipping:Bechtel practicing a curve ball; indoor batting cage

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Date	Sunday, February 7, 1875
Text	George Bechtel, the pitcher of the Centennials, has been practising daily during the past week at Nicholas’s ball-court in this city, and has now obtained a wonderful twist. Standing behind Fisher, who was practicing batting, one would think the ball was going straight through Cherokee, but just before reaching him it would twist off to the right or left, and Fisher struck only the air, which he did 410 times in succession last Wednesday afternoon. You might as well undertake to hit humming birds with twenty-inch Rodman guns, as to hit the “twisters” that Bechtel now sends in. So marked was this twist that several balls described a complete circle and returned to the pitcher’s hands. This was not only once but repeatedly done, and illustrates the power of magnetism and the human mind over leather and yarn.
Source	Philadelphia Sunday Mercury
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Submitted by	Richard Hershberger
Origin	Initial Hershberger Clippings

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