Look up spitball in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. A spitball is an illegal baseball pitch in which the ball has been altered by the application of...
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Dead-ball era (section Spitball)
overuse. Ball scuffing and adulteration by pitchers, particularly the spitball, were allowed, putting hitters at a disadvantage. The era ended very suddenly;...
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Spitball: The Baseball Literary Magazine is a quarterly literary magazine dedicated to baseball literature. Founded by Mike Shannon and W. J. Harrison...
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Brainstorming (redirect from Spitballing)
Brainstorming is a creativity technique in which a group of people interact to suggest ideas spontaneously in response to a prompt. Stress is typically...
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size, shape and composition, along with a new rule officially banning the spitball and other pitches that depended on the ball being treated or roughed-up...
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learned to throw a spitball, an illegal pitch using various substances such as saliva and Vaseline. Despite admitting to throwing a spitball, Perry was ejected...
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Awards. Perry gained notoriety for doctoring baseballs (e.g. throwing spitballs), and perhaps even more so for making batters think he was throwing them...
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altering the ball in any way is doctoring. The emery ball differs from the spitball, in which the ball is doctored by applying saliva or Vaseline. Vaseline...
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Keough would occasionally throw a spitball. One time, however, his spitball backfired on him. Keough threw a spitball that Boston Red Sox second baseman...
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Elmer Stricklett (section Spitball)
one of the pioneers of the spitball. He learned the pitch while playing in the minor leagues. He later taught the spitball to Ed Walsh and Jack Chesbro...
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theatrical release) Then Came Bronson William P. Lovering Episode: "The Spitball Kid" 1970 Storefront Lawyers Jerry Patman Episode: "This is Jerry, See...
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Cirillo (Spitball, 1974) Solo Guitar (Spitball, 1975) Straight Ahead to the Light with Steve Bagby (Spitball, 1976) Soloduo with Wally Cirillo (Spitball, 1976)...
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the changes in direction. Since it developed during a period when the spitball was legal and commonly used, and was similarly surprising in its motion...
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pitch Knuckleball Shuuto Illegal pitches Beanball Emery ball Shine ball Spitball Purpose pitches Brushback pitch Pickoff Pitchout The most common pitching...
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ball. Also, pitchers could manipulate the ball through the use of the spitball (In 1921, use of this pitch was restricted to a few pitchers with a grandfather...
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List of Game & Watch games (redirect from Game & Watch: Spitball Sparky)
objects include bumpers, outlanes, rollover lanes, kickbacks and plungers. Spitball Sparky was released in the Super Color series on February 6, 1984. It is...
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manager. He was fired that September after ordering his pitchers to throw spitballs (and telling the press that he did so) in protest of opposing Cleveland...
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seen since. The 1968 season saw the following rule changes regarding the spitball and moistened balls: While on the pitcher's mound, the pitcher is banned...
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Intentional walk Pitchout Illegal pitches Beanball Emery ball Shine ball Spitball Quick pitch 2021 pitch doctoring controversy Other Balk Wild pitch Deliveries...
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Intentional walk Pitchout Illegal pitches Beanball Emery ball Shine ball Spitball Quick pitch 2021 pitch doctoring controversy Other Balk Wild pitch Deliveries...
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unnatural spin on a pitch. Examples: By applying Vaseline or saliva (a spitball), or scuffing with sandpaper, emery board (an emery ball), or by rubbing...
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band members Milt Hinton and Jonah Jones in Jean Bach's 1997 film, The Spitball Story. Calloway disapproved of Gillespie's mischievous humor and his adventuresome...
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there were other factors at work, including the gradual abolition of the spitball (accelerated after the death of Ray Chapman, struck by a pitched ball thrown...
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Intentional walk Pitchout Illegal pitches Beanball Emery ball Shine ball Spitball Quick pitch 2021 pitch doctoring controversy Other Balk Wild pitch Deliveries...
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hard, snapping the wrist. Due to its movement being similar to that of a spitball, the pitch is often called the "dry spitter". The forkball differs from...
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created by Mike Shannon and W. J. Harrison, editors and co-founders of Spitball: The Literary Baseball Magazine because, up until then, there was no award...
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Shortstop Roy McMillan described its movement as being not unlike that of a spitball. In his final seasons, Koufax also began throwing a cutter to compensate...
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trouble again after accidentally hitting another teacher in the eye with a spitball in self-defense when Brandon and his friends bully her during an assembly...
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orchestra after an onstage fracas erupted when Calloway was hit with spitballs. He wrongly accused Gillespie, who stabbed Calloway in the leg with a...
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