Word: slider
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...most extraordinary of this year's freshman pitchers. Big, begoggled, 25, he has an LL.B. degree from St. John's University, passed the New York bar examinations last year. On the mound, Nahem has the cunning of a prosecuting attorney. His best ball is a slider (a deceptive fast ball that sneaks up on the batter, then suddenly slides away from his bat). He throws his curves both sidearm and overhand: sidearm to right-handed hitters, overhand to lefties...