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Advanced Activities: Curve Ball

1.	Arthur "Candy" Cummings, from ____________ is the inventor of the curve ball. (Check the correct answer.)
	New Jersey New England New York

2.	On the beaches near his home he imitated his heroes by endlessly pitching rocks. (Check the correct answer.)
	True False

3.	Candy wanted to make a baseball curve like the clam shell. (Check the correct answer.)
	True False

4.	When Candy Cummings started pitching for the Brooklyn Excelsiors baseball team he was _________ years old. (Check the correct answer.)
	16 18 20

5.	Today in the Baseball Hall Of Fame there is a plaque that reads: Candy Cummings, inventor of the curve ball. (Check the correct answer.)
	True False

6.	For more than _________ years people have doubted their eyes, thinking the curve ball was just an optical illusion. (Check the correct answer.)
	100 200 300

7.	In 1841, both Life and Time magazines conducted tests to see if the ball really did curve. (Check the correct answer.)
	True False

8.	The Massachusetts Institute of Technology came out with the final word in 1982: a curve ball is just an optical illusion. (Check the correct answer.)
	True False

9.	A curve ball can not be explained by the law of physics. (Check the correct answer.)
	True False

10.	In addition to the curve caused by the effects of air pressure, gravity also effects the path of the ball. (Check the correct answer.)
	True False

11.	A curve ball thrown by a right handed pitcher to a right handed batter with a topspin and a twist of the wrist is known as a ____________. (Check the correct answer.)
	Slider Knuckleball Roundhouse

12.	The ball is held and thrown with little velocity or spin, this is known as a _________________. (Check the correct answer.)
	Sinker Slider Knuckleball

13.	A __________ is the same as the Roundhouse except the pitcher twists his wrist in the opposite direction. (Check the correct answer.)
	Screwball Sinker Slider

14.	A ball thrown with topspin but with less force than a slider, and without the twist of the wrist is known as a ______________. (Check the correct answer.)
	Knuckleball Sinker Screwball

15.	________________ is considered the most difficult task in baseball. (Check the correct answer.)
	Catching Batting Running

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