Word: sidearmer
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...halfway mark in its schedule with four wins in ten starts, but has won three of its last four games. Either Barry Turner, Ralph Hymans, or Landon Clay will pitch today. Clay, a right who hurled for the jayvees last spring, throws a fast ball and has a deceptive sidearm curve...
...made blue or grey suits (his wife chooses the cloth), recently adopted a diplomat's Homburg. No backslapper, he is well-liked but something of a lone wolf in the Senate cloakrooms. In private he is amiable, with a quick, irreverent wit. When speaking he uses a sweeping sidearm gesture like a baseball pitcher's, rolls out his rounded, often eloquent periods in full, organlike tones...
...Feller famous, and his curve doesn't bend so sharply. But he manages to hide the ball more expertly: it comes up at a batsman out of nowhere as "alive" as an eel and just as hard to get hold of. Besides getting extra leverage from his wide sidearm sweep, Blackwell's awkward motion keeps enemy batsmen loose at the plate-just in case one of his pitches gets out of control. The third man to face Blackwell in the All-Star game was Boston's Ted Williams, who just looked at a third strike whizzing...
...ringer for Ichabod Crane. From a slouchy, 6 ft. 5 in. frame, Ewell Blackwell's arms dangled almost to his knees. When he wound up and pitched sidearm, he was so awkward that another player remarked: "He looks like he's falling out of a tree." Last week the awkward one, up to the majors for his second year (after three seasons in the Army), shuffled out to the mound in Cincinnati to face the league-leading Boston Braves in his first night game of the season...
With facts & figures, Professor Moore demonstrated that the technique most good players use is scientifically superior: the pendulum stroke, with forearm swinging vertically from the elbow. Unfortunately for Professor Moore's thesis, Willie uses a sidearm stroke. It was a habit he picked up lying belly-to-billiard-table as a boy of five. Said 59-year-old Willie Hoppe: "It's too complicated for me. I guess this analysis came too late to help my game...