英语词汇nickel curve的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

词汇	nickel curve
词源	nickel curve. In baseball a nickel curve is a curve that doesn’t break much. The term has been traced to William Arthur (Candy) Cummings (1848–1924), a Hall of Famer who is cred- ited with inventing the curveball over 120 years ago. Cum- mings’s curve was inspired by the half clam shells that he skimmed across a Brooklyn beach as a youngster, but he per- fected it by experimenting with a baseball that cost a nickel.
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