Charles William Eliot on the curve ball

[Joel S. Berson]

At 9/8/2012 11:43 AM, Paul Johnston wrote:
>The 1870's?  Have we got any Harvard-educated claimants to the first
>curve ball besides non-Harvard-but-New Englanders Candy Cummings and
>Fred Goldsmith and Baltimorean Bobby Mathews?

A red herring.  I simply wondered if anyone had inquired of the
Harvard Archives if they have any information about what if anything
Charles William Eliot wrote about curve balls.  I assume they have
some information at the Archives about this President of Harvard.

Joel


>Paul Johnston
>On Sep 8, 2012, at 9:27 AM, Joel S. Berson wrote:
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> > The report was 1894 but Soos says the 1870s?
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> > And has anyone asked the Harvard Archives?
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> > Joel

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