Candy Cummings

William Arthur "Candy" Cummings (October 18, 1848 - May 16, 1924) was a 19th century professional baseball pitcher in the National Association and National League. Candy Cummings Image from Baseball Hall of Fame. ... Candy Cummings Image from Baseball Hall of Fame. ... October 18 is the 291st day of the year (292nd in Leap years). ... 1848 is a leap year starting on Saturday (link will take you to calendar). ... May 16 is the 136th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (137th in leap years). ... 1924 was a leap year starting on Tuesday (link will take you to calendar). ... Baseball is a team sport, in which a fist-sized ball is thrown by a defensive player called a pitcher and hit by an offensive player called a batter with a round, smooth stick called a bat. ... A baseball pitcher delivers the ball to home plate In baseball, the pitcher is the player who throws the baseball from the pitchers mound toward the catcher to begin each play, with the goal of retiring a batter who attempts to either make contact with it or draw a... The National Association of Professional Baseball Players, or simply the National Association, was founded in 1871 and lasted through the 1875 season, after which its stronger teams created the National League. ... This article refers to the American baseball league. ...

Cummings had a brief but influential career. During a career which lasted from 1872 until 1877, Cummings compiled a 145-94 career record and 2.49 ERA while playing for five different teams. He is credited with being the first pitcher to throw a curveball. See also: 1871 in sports, 1873 in sports and the list of years in sports. Boat race Oxford and Cambridge Boat Race - Cambridge Football (soccer) England - Inaugural FA Cup: Wanderers F.C. beat Royal Engineers 1–0 Births April 25 - C. B. Fry, England cricketer and rugby international, long jump... See also: 1876 in sports, 1878 in sports and the list of years in sports. Boat race Oxford and Cambridge Boat Race - Dead Heat Cricket Australia defeats England in the first ever Test match by 45 runs Football (Soccer) FA Cup Wanderers FC beat Oxford University 2-1 (aet) Tennis... In baseball statistics, earned run average (ERA) is the mean of earned runs given up by a pitcher per nine innings pitched. ... Curveball Pitch Curveball Pitch The curveball is a type of pitch in baseball thrown with a grip and hand motion that induces extra rotation on the ball causing it to break, to fly in a more exaggerated curve than would be expected. ...

Cummings was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1939. The National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum, located at 25 Main Street in Cooperstown, New York, United States, is a semi-official museum operated by private interests that serves as the central point for the study of the history of baseball in North America, the display of baseball-related... See previous election: 1938 and next election: 1942 The 1939 elections to select inductees to the Baseball Hall of Fame were the last ones conducted prior to the Halls opening that year. ...

External links

• Baseball Hall of Fame biography
• Baseball-Reference.com - career statistics and analysis