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When were breaking pitches invented in baseball?

I noticed that nowadays right-handed batters do poorly most of the time compared to lefties and right handed pitchers dominate better than left handed pitchers

Way back in the early days. Try 1870′s.

Edit above: A man named William Arthur “Candy” Cummings is credited by MLB as being the first to use a curve ball in a game. He is now in the Hall of Fame and has a plaque there that states his creation of the curve ball.

Back in 1867, he was a pitcher for the Brooklyn Excelsiors and began throwing the curve at that time. Others soon learned how too, a certain Fred Goldsmith is known to have used it in 1870. So, my first response was pretty good.

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