Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 97, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 April 1911 — Low Curve Successful. [ARTICLE]

Low Curve Successful.

“A good low curve ball is the most effective article a pitcher can have in stock nowadays,” says Eduardo Phelps. •‘Nine out of ten batsmen find the low curve hard to connect with. All smart baseball men have discovered the fact and are touting their pitchers to go strong on the low curves. Some years ago the good batters could not hit a fast high ball. Cy Young’s fast ball shoulder high, with a little jump on It, had all the good stickers going sideways. Other pitchers patterned after Cy’s stunt. Then the hitters got to practicing on the high fast one, and it was not long before every "batsman of any class could murder the high ball. Everybody was laying for high ones. Now the wheel has turned. The pitchers are using the low curve regularly, and the boys who generally kill a fast high curve will chase a low bender out of the ball grounds. Never saw anything like it. They Just can’t make a connection with the low twister that, curves over the pan knee high."