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a swift pitcher
| Date | Saturday, June 5, 1858 |
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| Text | (Clinton vs. Ashland 5/29/1858 [junior clubs]) The best players in the Clinton were Jessup, the pitcher, who pitches a pretty swift ball, but rather too high... |
| Source | Porter's Spirit of the Times |
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| Submitted by | Richard Hershberger |
a twist on the pitch
| Date | 1858 |
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| Text | [picked nines New York vs. Brooklyn 7/20/1858] Price next took the bat, and he also struck a foul ball, and then another foul ball. (Van Cott, the New York pitcher, seemed to have got his peculiar “twist” in play, here, which accounts for the numerous foul balls that were struck.) |
| Source | New York Sunday Mercury |
| Tags | Pitching |
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| Submitted by | Richard Hershberger |
swift pitchers
| Date | Saturday, September 29, 1855 |
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| Text | (Pioneer Club of Jersey City v Columbia Club of Brooklyn on 19 September 1855) Law, Jr., as pitcher [of the Columbia], sends a swift ball, which not only wearies the batter but himself long before the game is finished. … Jordan [of the Pioneer], as pitcher, needs practice, and by his endeavor to pitch swift balls loses by pitching wild ones... |
| Source | New York Clipper |
| Tags | Pitching |
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| Submitted by | Richard Hershberger |
swift pitching 2
| Date | Saturday, January 7, 1860 |
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| Text | [Manhattan vs. Charter Oak 6/29/1860] Better pitching is seldom seen in a game of ball than that exhibited by Shields, of the Charter Oaks and Jackson and Dunphy of the Manhattans. There were none of those slow, easy balls, that enables even an ordinary batter to send sky-rockets over the fielders’ heads, but every ball was delivered swiftly and with vigor. |
| Source | New York Atlas |
| Tags | Pitching |
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| Submitted by | Richard Hershberger |