"yellow hammer" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1970, Jim Bouton, Ball Four, page 341",
          "text": "Watching the ballgame today someone broke off a real good curve and I said, \"That was a real yellow hammer.\"",
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          "ref": "2004, Michael Coffey, 27 Men Out: Baseball's Perfect Games, updated edition, page 106",
          "text": "Williams, getting steady doses of Koufax's \"yellow hammer,\" struck out looking at a curve, Sandy's fifth K."
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          "text": "“Bastard curveball” is one of several names in baseball for a virtually unhittable curve that breaks so sharply it qualifies as yet another marvel of physics. Yakker. Bowel-locker. Yellow hammer. Take your pick.",
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          "text": "\"[…]I know my baseball, and this kid was a beast. His fastball was okay, a cutter in the low nineties, but it was his dirty deuce that was outright nasty.”\nDeBorn frowned. “Dirty deuce?”\n“You know—the dirty yellow hammer . . . the yakker. Public enemy number two. A breaking ball, Bert! This kid had a breaking ball that was like hitting a lead shot put[…]\"",
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