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Goldie's Curve Ball Page 29
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He Pitched the First
Curve Ball
“THE BROOKLYN EAGLE”
August 17, 1870.
“Fred Goldsmith has won fame by developing a ball that twisted, providing to countless skeptics that a
sphere can cheat natural laws.
“Yesterday, at the Capitaline Grounds, a large crowd assembled
and cheered lustily, as a youth from New Haven named Fred Goldsmith,
demonstrated to the satisfaction of all that a baseball could be manipulated and controlled by throwing it
from one given point to another, so as to make a pronounced arc in space.
“This feat was successfully accomplished 6 or 8 times, and that which
up to this time was considered an optical illusion and against all rules of
philosophy was now an established fact.”
- Henry Chadwick, Editor
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