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Identifier: howtoplaybasebal00mcgr (find matches)
Title: How to play baseball, a manual for boys
Year: 1914 (1910s)
Authors: McGraw, John Joseph, 1873-1934. (from old catalog)
Subjects: Baseball
Publisher: New York and London, Harper & brothers
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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Illustration No. 15—Frank Chance covering first. Note that hehas given the runner room to cross the bag. Correct form.
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THE PITCHER 57 batter lazily and falls down and toward himafter seeming to pause for a moment in frontof him. It is a remarkable and very deceptivecurve. Much has been written and said of theknuckle or finger nail ball. It is one ofthe hardest to pitch and has been masteredby very few twiriers. The preliminary posi-tion of the hand in delivering it is as for thestraight ball, gripping it with the two ringersand the thumb. But, as the arm is drawn back,the two fingers are cocked on the ball as thoughyou were going to flick off a piece of paper.(Illustration No. 14.) Then, as the ball islet go, the fingers are snapped out straight,which causes the ball to sail up to the batterdead and act very much the same as the spit-ball does. The peculiar snap of the fingers asthe ball is let go at the full swing of the armdoes this and gives it the dead set. The ballbreaks down. I would not advise any one totry this. The fingers do not touch the seams inpitching this ball. That about clears up the

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