Henry James on Eliot on "a curved ball"

[Alice Faber]

On 9/11/12 1:47 PM, Garson O'Toole wrote:
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> They boasted of his making a feint to throw a ball in one direction
> and then throwing it in another,
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> I know that this sentence better describes the action of a pitcher
> keeping a runner on base and preventing a stolen base.

Sounds like the "fake to third, throw to first" move that, for some
reason, isn't actually a balk.

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