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How to throw a slider

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So you want to throw a slider? That's the one where at the end you really make an effort to get on top of the ball. You can call it a slider, a curve, a slurve. Sometimes a cutter is a slider. Usually you have finger pressure on your middle finger, across the seam or on the seam.

Posted by Steven Ellis on May 22, 2007
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