Word: coleman
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Dates: during 1883-1883
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...also was known to pitch a deceptive ball, but as he quit playing professionally about 1874 his work was gradually forgotten and Matthews given all the credit for the innovation. The reason for the curve is something that professional players have never troubled themselves about, and though Matthews and Coleman, and, in fact, any of them, can tell exactly how a ball will go if it leaves the hand in a certain way, with a certain amount of force, why or how it does it they decline to explain. Yyng, of the New York Stock Exchange nine, or the Staten...