Clipping:James Creighton's delivery

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Date Saturday, June 12, 1869
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[Niagara vs. Star, date not given] On the fifth inning of this game, when the Star were a number of runs ahead of the Niagara, the pitcher of the latter was changed, Jimmy [Creighton] taking that position. Peter O’Brien together with our informant, witnessed this game, and when Creighton got to work, using the language of our correspondent, “we saw something new in ball, the low, swift delivery, the ball rising from the ground past the shoulder to the catcher.

Source National Chronicle
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Submitted by Richard Hershberger
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