英语词汇curveball的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

词汇	curveball
词源	curveball. The word curveball has been traced to William Arthur “Candy” Cummings (1848–1924), a Brooklyn Hall of Famer, who is credited with inventing baseball’s curveball in 1867. Cummings’s curve was inspired by the shells that he skimmed across a Brooklyn beach as a youngster, but he per- fected it by experimenting with a baseball that he bought for a nickel.
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