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• a  with hand brought forward and down from above shoulder level
  an overhand pitch
  an overhand stroke
• s  sewn together with overhand stitches (close vertical stitches that pass over and draw the two edges together)

• When he pitches overhand, it does not curve at all.
• After dipping into a deep windup, he cocks his right knee to his shoulder, rears back until the ball is almost touching the ground behind him and then, in a whipping overhand .
• Jim went to Seattle with an overhand fastball, a nickel curve, and simplistic notions about strategy: if the bases were loaded and the count was 3 and 2, he threw the next pitch .

• overhanded
• overarm
• oversewn

• underhand

News & Articles

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• Defiance 8 | Jonathan Alder 2: Jonathan Alder falls to Defiance, Rivers
  Defiance left-hander Weston Rivers stands 6 feet 4, weighs 240 pounds and has an old-school look about him by wearing his stockings knee-high. He looks more imposing throwing an overhand fastball that tops out at 85 mph on the radar gun.
  June 9, 2013 - The Columbus Dispatch

Quotes

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• Bob Feller in USA Today
  I was not much in awe,said Feller, the oldest living Hall player at 89. "I had good stuff that day. I threw that overhand high fastball out of the bleachers. We figured the National League hitters hadn't seen it."
• Shane Mosley in USA Today
  He's so unpredictable. I tried to figure him out,Mosley said. "It wasn't that I was sluggish. I was watching out for his overhand rights, left hooks. He was a bit awkward. I was kind of hesitant. Maybe in the middle rounds, I kind of held...
• Brad Childress in Minneapolis Star Tribune
  I always struggled with where his release came from,Childress said. "It's kind of a drop-down, three-quarter, not overhand, over the top release. Just in the tape I've watched [since] he's been in the league, he can make some of the...