curveball

     

The curveball is a breaking pitch in baseball thrown with a grip an hand movement that imparts down and/or sideways spin to the ball. It is therefore considered a type of breaking ball.

Trivia about curveball

  • In 1959 physicist Lyman Briggs determined that this pitch really does what its name says
  • Baseball Hall-of-Famer Candy Cummings is often credited with inventing this pitch in the late 1800s