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06-21-2021, 12:16 PM
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For many years I had assumed Giants pitcher Hooks Wiltse must've had a pretty fair curve to have acquired that nickname.
Then I learned he was called that due to his quick fielding hands - contemporaries said he could pick balls hit back up the middle as if he had hooks for hands. 
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