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|Text=<p>Candy Cummings claimed that he first used his curve ball in a game against Harvard College on Oct. 7, 1867</p> | |Text=<p>Candy Cummings claimed that he first used his curve ball successfully (after numerous previous attempts) in a game against Harvard College on Oct. 7, 1867</p> | ||
|Sources=<p>Mark Pestana,"Candy Cummings Debuts the Curve-- Excelsiors vs. Harvard", in <em>Inventing Baseball: The 100 Greatest Games of the 19th Century</em> SABR, (2013), pp. 60-61</p> | |Sources=<p>Mark Pestana,"Candy Cummings Debuts the Curve-- Excelsiors vs. Harvard", in <em>Inventing Baseball: The 100 Greatest Games of the 19th Century</em> SABR, (2013), pp. 60-61</p> | ||
<p>Candy Cummings, "How I Pitched the First Curve", <em>The Baseball Magazine</em>, Aug. 1908. Cummings dated his first boyish attempts at a curve to the summer of 1863.</p> | |||
|Warning=<p>There are many issues with any individual claim to invention of the curve ball.</p> | |Warning=<p>There are many issues with any individual claim to invention of the curve ball.</p> | ||
|Has Supplemental Text=No | |Has Supplemental Text=No | ||
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Cummings' Curve Curtails Crimson's Clouting
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| Tags | Harvard CollegeHarvard College |
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| City/State/Country: | Cambridge, MA, USA |
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| Text | Candy Cummings claimed that he first used his curve ball successfully (after numerous previous attempts) in a game against Harvard College on Oct. 7, 1867 |
| Sources | Mark Pestana,"Candy Cummings Debuts the Curve-- Excelsiors vs. Harvard", in Inventing Baseball: The 100 Greatest Games of the 19th Century SABR, (2013), pp. 60-61 Candy Cummings, "How I Pitched the First Curve", The Baseball Magazine, Aug. 1908. Cummings dated his first boyish attempts at a curve to the summer of 1863. |
| Warning | There are many issues with any individual claim to invention of the curve ball. |
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1867.4 Cummings' Curve Curtails Crimson's Clouting"
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