It does not do to telegraph your intentions or the ball will go soaring over the bleachers--from off the old 'wagon tongue.' Exactly the same preliminary motions should be gone through with as if to send in your swiftest ball.
For this delivery I hold the ball loosely in my hand, holding it with my thumb and little finger.

The ball will at times almost seem to hang in the air, and the batter, who is looking for a singing swift one, makes a vicious swipe before the ball gets to him.

The change of pace is used mostly when a batter has two strikes and is worked up to the anxious pitch.

Nothing pleases a pitcher more than to fool a batter with his 'slows.' "To give an outcurve to the ball I take the same grip with the first two fingers as for the straight ball.

The thumb, however, with which the twist which causes the ball to curve is given, is brought up in touch with the ball with a tight grip.