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Show First Curve Ball Ever ' Pitched Amazed Batters Candy Cummings, of the old Stars , of Brooklyn, is credited with being ' the first pitcher to release a curve. However, Joseph M. Mann, of Frinoe ton, really did as much as dimming:), probably more, to popularize wlia-was wlia-was then a "freak" ball. Mann was the first to "accomplish a uo-hit game, and It was largely through the use of curves that he earned ibis distinction. Mann, pitch ing for Princeton, shut out Yale al New Haven, May 20, 1375. So as lonislied were the Yale platers at Mann's ability to curve a ball thai they gathered round the plate as the Princeton star fanned out the EH butters. but-ters. George Wright, of the old Cincinnati Cincin-nati Red Stockings, pulled the first i double play. It was in a game against the Atlantics. of Brooklyn, played on -Long Island. In the tenth lnnii-.g, ; with a man on first anil second, the ' hatter popped a lly to Wright at short. Instead of catching it, as the runners run-ners anticipated. Wright "trapped" the ball by scooping It on the ors! bound. He then threw It to t.hir-1, und that baseman, alive to the slti-.'.lon, shot It to second. Two runners were out, and the first double play had bsen performed. |