Antedating of "Knuckleball"

Shapiro, Fred fred.shapiro at YALE.EDU
Wed Jun 30 00:51:59 UTC 2010


knuckleball (OED 1927)

1907 _Racine Daily Journal_ 30 Apr. 7 (Newspaperarchive)  Moren, a young pitcher with Philadelphia, has invented a drop curve called the knuckle ball and makes it work very prettily.


Fred Shapiro

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