Word: slider
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...paunch, finished the year with a disappointing 7-7 record. Before the start of the 1968 season, however, he underwent some strenuous arm therapy to stretch the tendon, lost 15 Ibs. and showed up for spring training in mint condition for the first time in years. His slider, an essential pitch for a lefthander throwing to a right-handed batter, returned better than ever. McNally...
...Kalinoski's pitching strength is his speed and his variety of pitches. "He has a good an assortment of pitches as any college pitcher we've seen in a long time." Park said. Relying on a lively fastball, Kalinoski confuses the batter with a slider, curve, change-up, and a drop ball that he saves as a strikeout pitch...
...most potential of all the pitchers," captain John Ignacio added. "He has the best slider, fast ball, and curve; all he really needs is the control and confidence that comes from playing regularly...
...owns all the right "junk" too, throwing a strong fastball, a sweeping curve, a quick-breaking slider, and a confusing change-up. He has endurance, as evidenced by his 16 strikeout performance against Yale in '67. Those major league scouts watching that game must have been considerably impressed, for Peters was the only right-handed pitcher selected by the major league scouting directors to the Sporting News All-American Team last summer...
Certain that the powerhitting Tigers would be looking for fastballs and swinging freely, Gibson shrewdly mixed up his pitches, alternating sliders and slow curves with his "hummer." By the end of the eighth inning, 14 Tigers had gone down on strikes. When Gibson took the mound in the ninth, only one strikeout stood between him and Sandy Koufax's World Series record. He got that, and more. Detroit Outfielder Al Kaline nailed futilely at a fastball. First Baseman Norm Cash missed a slider by a mile. Then, with a final flourish, Gibson slipped another slider past Outfielder Willie Horton...