 After a Getzein victory over the Kansas City Cowboys in 1886 , the Detroit Free Press wrote : " The Pretzel is all right . He went into the box to @-@ day and pitched one of his finest , his curves circling around in the form of the delicious pastry from which Getz takes his sobriquet . " However , the editor of the Grand Rapids World opined that Getzein 's " curved ball " was a fiction . He wrote : 
