Clipping:The invention of the curve ball
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Date | Monday, August 27, 1883 |
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Text | The credit of being the first base ball pitcher to deliver curved balls—balls which seem to be going straight over the home base, but suddenly turn aside and go out of the batter's reach or smite his in the legs—is claimed in behalf of several players. Nearly all college men, except those from Harvard, insist that the art was discovered at Yale. Harvard men generously credit a Princeton player with being the father of curve pitching. It is held by others that deceptive pitching—in reality curve pitching, but not then recognized as such—was practiced by professional players some time before any amateur acquired it. A player who retired in 1874 says that he learned the secret from a veteran several years earlier than that season. Arthur Cummings was the first man to curve the ball. |
Source | Sporting Life |
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Submitted by | Richard Hershberger |
Origin | Initial Hershberger Clippings |
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