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Candy Cummings
Baseball is an outdoor sport in which a pitcher pitches a hard, fist sized ball to the hitting area of a batter. The batter hits the hard ball with a tapered, smooth, cylindrical bat made up of wood or metal. The batsman scores by running counter-clockwise within the four markers called the bases arranged at the corners of a diamond. Baseball is sometimes called hardball to differentiate it from similar games such as softball.
Candy Cummings was a 19th-century professional baseball pitcher in the National Association and National League. He was born on October 18th, 1848 in Ware, Massachusetts. His height was 5-09 with weight 120 lbs. Nicknamed Candy or Father of the Curveball he was elected to membership in the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1939 as Pioneers and Executives. Massachusetts. Cummings was 27 years old when he broke into the big leagues on April 22nd, 1876, with the Hartford Dark Blues.
Widely sought after by National Association clubs, he performed for four different teams in as many years. When the National League was formed in 1876, he won 16 games for the Hartford Blues, and on September 9 he became the first major leaguer to pitch two complete games in one day. In 1877 he was appointed president of baseball's first minor league, the International Association, and performed as player-president.
His career lasted from 1872 until 1877 where he compiled a 145 to 94 career record and 2.49 average while playing for five different teams. He played an important role from 1870 to 1875. He discovered the idea of the curveball. He died on May 16th, 1924.
Candy Cummings with all his dedication and devotion in his play has achieved many hallmarks in his overall baseball-playing career. He had the ability of defeating the opponent easily by giving some extra hard work and efforts.
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