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There are plenty of reasons to fall in love with the curveball. There’s the shape, first of all, and the jelly-kneed reaction it inspires. There’s the fact that only the sinker coaxes more groundballs ...

Terrifyingly beautiful, like summer thunderstorms and whitewater rapids, the curveball of Astros pitcher Lance McCullers can be found at the intersection of violence and wonder. It is a demon he ...

Among a baseball pitcher’s arsenal of tricks is the infamous curveball, whereby the baseball takes a sudden dive downward just before it reaches the plate, faking out the batter. A new “History Minute ...