Show WHY BALL CAN BE CURVED presence of irregularities on the sphere alone makes the feat a possibility if it were not for mountains on n baseball much larger in prop proportion than any mountains on earth the ilia clever pitcher could not get so much na as a sixteenth of an inch curve in it it if it a baseball were a perfect sphere the best pitcher in tile lie world could not make it curve a lialis breadth other than the natural curve produced by gravity the reason tile baseball curves says the american hoy boy 1 Is because it Is covered with mountains 11 there aro are great peaks and ridges valleys and cliffs gullies and craters till nil over it magnified diameters nil all these things may bo be seen and they present afar a far more rugged landscape than any mountainous region in ili tile the world it looks like an ex exaggerated tiled combination of the orand grand canyon had Tn lands nd alps and it la is these irregularities that make it possible for a pitcher to curve his ill baseball of course lie knows liow how to hold and throw it but in passing through the air the friction strikes upon these ragged edgag even though they have to bo be magnified diameters to be seen will the naked eye CYP I 1 mol and cause calls such 1 n I pressure as to make tile the hall ball leave its natural course |