Legend of gyroball continues to grow: Is pitch that buckles hitters real or fiction? Depends on whom you ask

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We have been pitching baseballs on this patch of earth known as America for more than a century and a half, and by now we thought we had exhausted the possible combinations of spins and arm angles that create the known spectrum of standard pitches and their offshoots. Fastballs have backspin. Breaking balls have topspin. For a changeup, reduce the spin. And so on and so forth. There hasn't been a truly new pitch introduced into this catechism since the split-finger arrived in the early 1970s.

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