So you are the Wilson whose fadeaway ball won the pennant, are you?
You had everything--speed, curves, control, and that old fadeaway of yours was working like a charm.
But his curves were working perfectly, his control was marvelous, and when a third strike was in order he called upon his hop ball or his fadeaway and it did the trick.
He shut his teeth, and, trying to keep away from his face the shadow of pain, threw his fadeaway to Rad again.
He varied his delivery, used his fadeaway and his cross-fire, and had the satisfaction of pitching three innings during which he did not allow a hit.
But his celebrated fadeaway made him wince when he twisted his arm into the peculiar position necessary to get the desired effect.
Well, I've got an in, an out, a fadeaway and a spitter.
He had brought out his fadeaway now and mixed it in so well with the others that the batters never had a chance.
Take it easy, don't let them rattle you, and don't use your fadeaway as long as your curves and fast straight ones are working right.
Gunther had been expecting the fadeaway that had been served to the two before him, and was not prepared for the swift high one, just below the shoulder.
They would have been still more so, if at that moment they had begun to realize the havoc and dismay that would be spread among their opponents before the season ended by Bert's fadeaway ball.
Not since that memorable day when Bert's fadeaway ball had won the pennant had their cup of satisfaction been so full to overflowing.
How he met the test and won his fight will be told in the next volume, "Bert Wilson's Fadeaway Ball.
Four-Wall Boast: This particular shot is much more difficult to master than the double boast or three-wall fadeaway but, at the same time, far more effective and unexpected.
Otherwise it is practically impossible to obtain the necessary angle to pull of the three-wall fadeaway successfully.
Hughson, cool as an iceberg, brought his fadeaway into play and whiffed the next man up.
That fadeaway of his was zipping along six inches under their bats.
They drank and Fadeawaynoticed the other's increasing pallor.
Fadeaway rode his horse into the ford and sat looking downstream as the horse drank.
One of them dismounted and dragged the body of Fadeaway to the bank.
Which may have been true enough, for Sundown would undoubtedly have been afraid to use the weapon and Fadeaway might have misunderstood his bungling.
Fadeaway swung his hat and laughed as the little creature reared and leaped out into space.
Later Fadeaway entered the hotel, asked for a room, and clumped upstairs.
Fadeaway cursed and wiped the blood from his mouth.
He was aware that Will Corliss had returned to the Concho, and also, through rumor, that Corliss and Fadeaway had been together in Antelope.
He sat gazing at Fadeaway with an unreadable expression.
Fadeaway glanced back at the sleeping boy, then set spur to his horse and waved his sombrero.
As they topped the rise Fadeaway again urged his cayuse to a run, for the puncher had enjoyed the hospitality of his companions of "The Blue," a distant cattle ranch, a day longer than had been set for his return to the Concho.
Fadeaway glanced across the mesa and, as he had expected, saw a band of sheep grazing in the sunshine.
And Fadeaway reasoned that John Corliss would take no steps to recover the money should suspicion point to his brother having stolen it.
Fadeaway noticed that Corliss was unarmed, and he twisted the circumstance to suit a false interpretation of the fact.
It isn't often that I hit a foot above a ball, but that fadeaway of yours had me going.
