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 […]
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