Clipping:Proving the curve
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| Date | Sunday, October 7, 1877 |
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| Text | That a pitcher can curve the ball in delivering it for the batsman is believed to be a fact, whether scientific men can or can not demonstrate the process. It was clearly proven to be a fact on the Boston Ground, some days ago. The broad bend which the batsmen use for a seat was set on end near third base, with the smooth or upper surface toward the diamond and upon the foul line. A stake was driven midway between this bench and the home-plate, and, as every ball-player knows, the foul line is a straight line running from the home-p0late to third base. Will White, of the Boston Club, stood in the diamond, just by the bench, and delivered the ball in the direction of the plate. The surface of the bench kept his hand inside the foul line when the ball was sent on its mission. It circles around the outside of the post and struck the ground several inches inside, or to the left of the foul line, near the home base, which could not have been the case without the “impossible curve.” Boston Herald October 7, 1877 [See also Cincinnati Enquirer 10/19/1877 for letters from two professors, taking opposite sides on the possibility of a curve ball, and CE 10/20/1877 for a letter advocating the curve and getting it backwards, and CE 11/03/1877 for a roughly correct explanation.] |
| Source | Boston Herald |
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| Submitted by | Richard Hershberger |
| Origin | Initial Hershberger Clippings |
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