Tag Archives: Candy Cummings
Fred Goldsmith
Fred Goldsmith (Baseball. Born, New Haven, CT, May 15, 1852; died, Berkley, MI, Mar. 28, 1939.) On Aug. 17, 1870, at Brooklyn’s Capitoline Grounds, Fred Ernest Goldsmith gave a public demonstration of how a curveball breaks. Goldsmith threw about eight pitches that went from right of the first pole set up in a series of […]
Candy Cummings
Candy Cummings (Baseball. Born, Ware, MA, Oct. 18, 1848; died, Toledo, OH, May 16, 1924.) It is probable, though not absolutely certain, that William Arthur Cummings invented the curveball. Cummings supposedly studied the flight of seashells tossed at the shore and perfected the wrist motion necessary to make a baseball curve. In the days before […]
