Show WHY BALL CAN BE CURVED presence of irregularities on the sphere alone makes the feat a possibility i if it were not for mountains on a baseball much larger in fit proportion than any mountains on earth the clever pitcher could not get so much ns as a sixteenth of an inch curve in it if a baseball were a perfect sphere the best pitcher in the world could not make it curve a hairs breadth other than the natural I 1 curve produced by bv gravity the reason the baseball curves says tile american boy is because it is covered with mountains mountain there are arc great peaks and ridges S valleys and din cliffs s gullies and craters all over it magnified diameters all these things may be seen and they present afar a far more rugged landscape than any mountainous region in the world it looks like an all exaggerated cora combination of the grand canyon bad lands alps and Ro ckles it Is these irregularities that make it possible for a pitcher to curve his baseball ot of course he knows liow how to hold and throw it but in passing through the air the friction strikes upon these ragged edges even though they have to be magnified diameters to be seen alth the naked eye and cause such a pressure as to make the ball leave its natural course 1 |