Clipping:How to curve a ball
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| Date | Wednesday, December 26, 1883 |
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| Text | The following is the method of delivery generally used for the incurve to a right hand and the outcurse to a left hand batsman: The pitcher closes the third and last fingers, and holds the ball with the first and second and the thumb. Raising his hand nearly to the height of his shoulder and back of him, he takes a step forward, and bringing his hand down with a wide swing, delivers the ball with his wrist turned well back and a sort of snap motion which can be compared to nothing so well as the “cracking” or a whip. The whole point of this delivery is to have the ball leave the two fingers last. It should, if fact, roll off those fingers, as one might say, and thus get a rotary motion, which will give it the curve. This will be made clear enough by taking a ball in the hand and allowing it to roll off the fingers to the side. The method of delivery used in the outcurve appears more difficult than the other, but it is much more common in practice. The swing of the arms is of course nearly the same in both cases, but for the outcurve the ball should leave the ends of the fingers last, and the thumb should be kept out of way. By conceiving of the ball as leaving the forefinger last a clear idea of a circular motion opposite to the former one can be gotten. It is plan, of course that the rotary motion of the ball in this case must be exactly opposite to that which would produce the incurve. |
| Source | Sporting Life |
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| Submitted by | Richard Hershberger |
| Origin | Initial Hershberger Clippings |
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