One hand went back, came forward with an overhand motion.
Usually, they are thrown in an overhand motion (much like throwing a baseball) in a manner that causes the axe to rotate as it travels through the air.
Roy Halladay, a 21-year-old with an overhand motion and an explosive fastball, had not allowed an earned run in his first 19 innings this season.
Spahn complemented his fastball with a curveball, a screwball, a slider and changeups, all thrown with the same overhand motion.
Hall fired the Nehi can he had been holding with one whistling, overhand motion.
An overhand motion sent the jacket sailing.
The hurler, with a running overhand motion, pitched the ball on a hop toward the batsman protecting a wicket they had fashioned from a metal trash can.
Wakefield pitched with what is said to be a slow sidearm motion, but is actually a -overhand motion.
But she would fare even better in 1948, when the league shifted strictly to overhand motion.
The arm action machine then delivers the ball in an overhand motion.