To our California associates:<br><br>There are
many advantages to using a real corkball instead of a
modified tennis ball (most of them to the pitcher). <br>1.
It is harder to hit, but, when it does get hit, it
goes farther than the fuzz.<br>2. A corkball is half
the diameter of a baseball, but weighs 2/3 of what a
baseball does. This means fastballs go faster. My old cop
buddy Steve Fuchs (also one hell of a rock drummer)
brought his radar gun to Tower Grove one sunday
afternoon. We pitched fuzzies and corkballs, just to
compare. The corkball was much faster. <br>3. Breaking
balls and off-speed pitches. With a corkball the balls
break farther and faster, changeups and knuckleballs
are more effective, and, my personal favorite, YOU
CAN THROW SPLIT FINGERED FASTBALLS EASILY with a
corkball. (The splitter is my new not so secret
weapon).<br><br>I recommend switching as soon as possible. The only
problem I foresee is the occasional broken
window.<br><br>Good luck, guys. Look forward to the start of your
spring training.
First of all, the California league plays with a fuzz all the time. I tried to send them a bunch of corkballs for Christmas from Markwort's site, but you have ...
To our California associates:<br><br>There are many advantages to using a real corkball instead of a modified tennis ball (most of them to the pitcher). <br>1....
I know I'll get people started with this. The way it goes down is like this when your young in St. Louis you play fuzz at your local school yard (we didn't...
"While the sun shines Tower Grove Park is fine" (of course after dark that is a completely different story). Yes, there are a few streets in the Tower Grove ...
I remeber when I worked for Pasta House oh so many years ago we'd get off at like 2 or 3 in the morning and go down under the viaduct at Shaw and play at some...
My brother, John, you state quite eloquently the reasons for the superiority of the real corkball. You are right about the break of the pitched ball and the ...
1.) The safety factor = the wildness factor + the lack of equipment factor. When we were in high school, we came together around corkball. Two groups of kids ...
3.) The balance of the game. We don't know how any change might work out, but my suspicion is that the corkball would lead to faster fastballs and more ...
I lived from '95-2000 on the south side, but, like these other guys, I grew up in U City. The brothers B lived in Tower Grove South a long, long, time ...
I grew up all over St. Louis north of Tower Grove, Pine Lawn, St. Ann, but most of the later years Dutchtown thats why I got to go to Soldan High, you've heard...
The Cambrian Park corkball league spring training pre-season begins this Sunday, February 10th. Weather will decide if the players league will actually partake...
Only Vic, Louis, Vince, and I showed up to the field. No games were played; in fact, most of the time was spent shoring up the mound. Everyone but Victor was...
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