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|State=MA
|State=MA
|City=Cambridge
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|Game=Base Ball,  
|Game=Base Ball,
|Age of Players=Youth
|Age of Players=Youth
|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 in a game against Harvard College on Oct. 7, 1867</p>
|Sources=<p>Pestana, Mark, in Felber, Bill, Ed.,&nbsp;<em>Inventing Baseball: The 100 Greatest Games of the 19th Century</em> (2013), pp. 60-61</p>
|Sources=<p>Mark Pestana, in <em>Inventing Baseball: The 100 Greatest Games of the 19th Century</em>&nbsp;SABR, (2013), pp. 60-61</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>
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Cummings' Curve Curtails Crimson's Clouting

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Candy Cummings claimed that he first used his curve ball in a game against Harvard College on Oct. 7, 1867

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Mark Pestana, in Inventing Baseball: The 100 Greatest Games of the 19th Century SABR, (2013), pp. 60-61

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There are many issues with any individual claim to invention of the curve ball.

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