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...knotholes no bigger than a dime. When he joined a minor league team, he decided that he was so much worse than most pitchers that only a special kind of curve would save him. He perfected one, the screwball. In 1925, Detroit bought Pitcher Hubbell. When famed Ty Cobb saw the screwball, he contemptuously told Hubbell to learn something else or give up pitching. Hubbell's control kept him from arguing. Back in the minor leagues, he went on throwing screwballs. In 1928, he was throwing the screwball for the Giants. In the All-Star game...
McCrae H. Cobb...
Wilson Foster and James Cobb, 3rd were later appointed as the two Delegates from Stanford...
...campfire with her father; 2) posed on a porch rail with her father; 3) ate a picnic supper with her father; 4) tossed snowballs with her father; 5) rode horseback with her father; 6) walked out on a jutting mountain ledge with her father. With quiet, handsome Mrs. Theo Cobb Landon fully occupied by her bouncing babies, Nancy Jo and Jack, it was plain that by autumn Peggy Anne Landon's face would be even more familiar to the U. S. public than Daughter Anna Roosevelt Dall's became in the summer...
...this year has made him one of the five leading batsmen of the National League and its most spectacular rookie since Dizzy Dean. The other was Joseph Paul Di Maggio, 21-year-old outfielder of the New York Yankees, the American League's most sensational recruit since Ty Cobb...