“It was all there, the ‘four-seamer,’ which is what he [Vida Blue] calls his 99-m.p.h. fastball clutched on all four stitches, the “Blu Blazer,” which is the four-inch slider, the “slurve,” which eats the plate on the outside, and the “wrinkle,” the changeup which comes in so slow it gets old and wrinkled on the way.” Jim Murray, “Help from the Blue,” Los Angeles Times, August 13, 1978, Part III, p14
No earliest use given in 2009 Dickson Baseball Dictionary
