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- Carl Hubbell was the best
- pitcher in baseball during
- a period when great
- sluggers, such as Babe
- Ruth and Jimmie Foxx,
- reigned. Carl won 253 games for the New
- York Giants in 16 seasons. He won 20 or
- more games in a season five times.
-
- CarlΓÇÖs career started slowly. When he was a
- young pitcher trying to make the major
- leagues, he had an unusual kind of pitch.
- Managers were afraid to let him throw it
- because they feared it would hurt his arm.
- CarlΓÇÖs pitch was a ΓÇ£reverse curve" or
- screwball. A screwball breaks the opposite
- way from a curveball, and throwing it can
- put a strain on a pitcherΓÇÖs arm.
-