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curveball
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  • Not toss each other aside because life threw a curveball their way, even if it was a major curve ball.†   (source)
  • They liked Rick, who showed them how professional basketball players took foul shots, and how to throw curve balls.†   (source)
  • He could throw a football fifty yards, sink a ten-foot hook shot with monotonous regularity, and throw one of the finest curveballs I had ever seen.†   (source)
  • [He shoots his hand forward and out to indicate the path of a curve ball.†   (source)
  • His curveball wasn't curving, his sinker wasn't sinking, his knuckler wasn't knuckling.†   (source)
  • Those curveballs she sometimes threw could smack you right between the eyeballs.†   (source)
  • All he did was set the Say Hey Kid down swinging — on three straight curveballs.†   (source)
  • Norberto called for a curveball for the next batter, Leonard Tobey.†   (source)
  • Hundreds of flashbulbs fired as Angel's curveball began to break about five feet from the plate.†   (source)
  • La Mesa's center fielder, Dennis Hanggi, took two fast curveballs for strikes.†   (source)
  • Norberto dug in as the Baytown pitcher served him a curve ball that didn't break.†   (source)
  • He hung on for thirteen more years, a baseball junkie, winding up in some hot tamale league in Guanajuato, Mexico, until his curveball could no longer bend around so much as a chili pepper and his fastball was slower than a senorita's answer.†   (source)
  • And now the stories were mixed with instruction: the grizzled, rickety coot showing the kid how to spray liners to the opposite field; how to get a jump on a long fly even before the batter hits it; how to throw the curveball.†   (source)
  • Curveballs and bus fumes and dreams, dreams of the Majors — clean sheets and an umpire at every base.†   (source)
  • Not toss each other aside because life threw a curveball their way, even if it was a major curve ball.†   (source)
  • Boh father and son wished Monterrey Industrial luck in the tournament and then walked away, wondering with what might have been had one curveball not curved so much.†   (source)
  • McKirahan dug in, but Angel, cold in concentration on his next two pitches, sent curveballs toward the corners of the plate.†   (source)
  • Again, Angel worked on pitching to the corners of the strike zone with low, fast curveballs, and he struck out Wilson to end La Mesa's second inning.†   (source)
  • After pitching the most important game thus far in his life, Angel began to throw pitch after pitch of curveballs and change-ups with his left and right arms for the press corps and other amazed onlookers.†   (source)
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