Look up spitball in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. A spitball is an illegal baseball pitch in which the ball has been altered by the application of...
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Spitball: The Baseball Literary Magazine is a quarterly literary magazine dedicated to baseball literature. Founded by Mike Shannon and W. J. Harrison...
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Dead-ball era (section Spitball)
overuse. Ball scuffing and adulteration by pitchers, particularly the spitball, were allowed, putting hitters at a disadvantage. The era ended very suddenly;...
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Brainstorming (redirect from Spitballing)
Brainstorming is a creativity technique in which a group of people interact to suggest ideas spontaneously in response to a prompt. Stress is typically...
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learned to throw a spitball, an illegal pitch using various substances such as saliva and Vaseline. Despite admitting to throwing a spitball, Perry was ejected...
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theatrical release) Then Came Bronson William P. Lovering Episode: "The Spitball Kid" 1970 Storefront Lawyers Jerry Patman Episode: "This is Jerry, See...
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Keough would occasionally throw a spitball. One time, however, his spitball backfired on him. Keough threw a spitball that Boston Red Sox second baseman...
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altering the ball in any way is doctoring. The emery ball differs from the spitball, in which the ball is doctored by applying saliva or Vaseline. Vaseline...
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size, shape and composition, along with a new rule officially banning the spitball and other pitches that depended on the ball being treated or roughed-up...
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Awards. Perry gained notoriety for doctoring baseballs (e.g. throwing spitballs), and perhaps even more so for making batters think he was throwing them...
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