Talk:Yellow Hammer
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[edit] Notability
Is this actually notable? I've never heard the term before, was unable to find it in any of my baseball books, and "yellow hammer" + curveball produced fewer than 300 hits on Google. Is this a Japanese term?Alternator
It's an old-fashioned baseball term, but it is used with regularity during baseball broadcasts, especially those featuring older former players. In general, the term only applies to exceptional curveballs with snapping twelve-to-six break (think Doc Gooden), so that further reduces its frequency of use. The declining use of the term coincides with the declining use of the curveball in MLB. Almost every pitcher used to throw a curve, but the pitch has been superseded by the slider as the primary breaking ball used by pitchers. Splitters, cutters, and hybrid slider-curves (slurves) are fairly new pitches that have combined with the conventional slider to reduce the use of true curves (and, by extension, yellow hammer curves).
The article was improved quite a bit, especially the change from just calling it "a curveball" to explaining that it is a certain type of curveball. Wish I could do something helpful, but whoever made the addition--nice work.Alternator 06:00, 1 June 2007 (UTC)
