The reliable book of outdoor games. Containing official rules for playing base ball, foot ball, cricket, lacrosse, tennis, croquet, etc (1893)
Chadwick, Henry, 1824-1908 · New York, F. M. Lupton · leaf 11
ssesthrough the air quicker than that of the otherside ; and to produce this retarding effect theball must be made to rotate on its axis hori-zontally as it passes through the air, the re-tarding of the ball causing the curve. It willbe seen that the chief difficulty in producing THE RELIABLE BOOK… … One of these latter artists of the box, Mr. J.Howard Subers, thus instructs novices in theart of curved pitching as follows: Out-Curve.—This is the most common, andwithout which the average pitcher cannot hopeto be effective. It comes straight from the hand and thencurves away from the batsman.…
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