outcurve

Quote: “He has only average speed, very poor command of the ball, and relies almost entirely on the outcurve.”

The Neyer/James Guide To Pitchers Bill James Rob Neyer 2004

The outcurve, the drop, down shoot, and so on, are simply a curve ball to the professional player.

The Neyer/James Guide To Pitchers Bill James Rob Neyer 2004

Bender did not have a name for the pitch, which in that era was not really unusual because any breaking pitch could just be called “a curve”; a pitcher might throw three or four curves—a drop, an outcurve, etc.

The Neyer/James Guide To Pitchers Bill James Rob Neyer 2004

Bender did not have a name for the pitch, which in that era was not really unusual because any breaking pitch could just be called “a curve”; a pitcher might throw three or four curves—a drop, an outcurve, etc.

The Neyer/James Guide To Pitchers Bill James Rob Neyer 2004

In a 1908 instructional book called How to Pitch, Bill Dineen says of the incurve/inshoot he used the terms interchangeably, “Speed is necessary for an inshoot … Do not become discouraged if you fail to see the ball positively change its course as it does in an outcurve … Practice will succeed in giving a sharp break to the ball, which may not amount to more than an inch or two …”

The Neyer/James Guide To Pitchers Bill James Rob Neyer 2004

Note: McMahon below says that Terry “was known for his wide assortment of puzzling curves, including what Sporting Life called ‘the sharpest and speediest outcurve ever seen.’”

The Neyer/James Guide To Pitchers Bill James Rob Neyer 2004

Quote: “He has only average speed, very poor command of the ball, and relies almost entirely on the outcurve.”

The Neyer/James Guide To Pitchers Bill James Rob Neyer 2004

As he stood there, turned from me, with his hat off, and his neck painfully flushed under the sharp outcurve of his dark head, a feeling of pity surged up in me, as if I had taken an unfair advantage.

The Inn of Tranquillity: Studies and Essays 2004

The outcurve, the drop, down shoot, and so on, are simply a curve ball to the professional player.

The Neyer/James Guide To Pitchers Bill James Rob Neyer 2004

One might assume that the incurve is simply the reverse of the outcurve, which would be the reverse of the curveball … which is to say, a screwball.

The Neyer/James Guide To Pitchers Bill James Rob Neyer 2004