Clipping:Tests of the curve ball
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| Date | Monday, August 20, 1883 |
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| Text | Test test at Lancaster of the curve delivery of a ball by Hofford, pitcher for the Ironside Club of that place, noted recently in The Record, did not result in a double curve, as was claimed by a Lancaster paper; but an ordinary single curve of unusual extent was thrown. Such experiments have been repeatedly and successfully made. On one occasion Critckley, formerly of Albany, N.Y., threw a ball clear around the corner of a hotel in Geneva, N.Y., and Purroy, a New York pitcher, threw a ball from the centre of the pitchers's box, which went over the home-plate and struck the catcher's fence, 135 feet distant, twenty-two feet to the left of the point where a straight line produced from his stnadpoint throught the home-plate would reach the fence. Wldman, of Detroit, and McCormick, of Cleveland, can cause a ball to deflect six feet from a straight line in passing through the fifty feet between pitcher's point and home base, and there are probably others who can perform a similar feat. |
| Source | Philadelphia Record |
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| Submitted by | Richard Hershberger |
| Origin | Initial Hershberger Clippings |
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