Clipping:Questioning the curve ball
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Date | Sunday, October 7, 1877 |
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Text | Quite a discussion is going on in scientific circles in regard to the possibility of the horizontal curve in a pitcher's delivery. The Boston Advertiser says that “Professor Swift, of Rochester, declares that curved pitching is a mathematical impossibility. A writer in the Scientific American joins hands with the Rochester professor, and has prepared an elaborate article, with calculations to prove his position. An expert visited Rochester, and, in the presence of the learned gentleman, caused a common regulation ball to curve seven feet eight inches in a distance of 127 feet.” There is not questioning the fact that it is done. |
Source | New Orleans Times |
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Submitted by | Richard Hershberger |
Origin | Initial Hershberger Clippings |
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