Screwball - "King Carl" Hubbell is
probably responsible for this thirties" expression meaning an eccentric
person. The New York Giants pitcher used his famous screwball, which he
introduced in the early 1930s, to win twenty-four games in a row. Hubbell
pitched forty-six consecutive scoreless innings and, most amazing of all,
struck out in order the greatest concentration of slugging power ever
assembled - Babe Ruth, Lou Gehrig and Jimmy Foxx - in the 1934 all-star
game.