Ham Avery
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Ham Avery
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Charles Hammond Avery was an American lawyer, in his youth a college baseball pitcher, and a professional baseball umpire. Avery, son of Charles L'Hommedieu Avery and Martha (Bakewell) Avery, was a prep school student in Cincinnati in 1870; the next year he enrolled at Yale, where he joined the baseball team in the spring of his sophomore year in 1873. He was called "the first man to pitch a curve-ball game", using the new pitch with success against Harvard. When he graduated in 1875, he was off
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American lawyer, baseball player, and umpire
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2024-04-25T13:12:32Z
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