Show I r AS EVANS SEES IT T 1 HAT is generally regarded in baseball baseball baseball base base- W ball circles as pure bunk Is still persisted in by a lot of ot managers manager I have reference to the strategy that a lot of ot managers Indulge in il every day as as to their pitching select selee- selee t tI Most managers have a pretty prett good idea the night before who they pitchIng pitching pitching pitch pitch- ing the next day Occasionally there Isa is isa isa a doubt as to the possible selection Yet It Is an almost every day occurrence occur occur- occurrence rence to have the rival managers try to I pull something by covering up their pitchIng pitching pitching pitch pitch- ing selections until the very last minute In the American and National leagues there are aro certain clubs who are arc weak against left handed pitching Some of these clubs have enough reserve force to combat any weakness by shifting the lineup line lIne- up ur to meet the pitching selection In order to make as much trouble as possible some managers always have both botha a a. left lett and hander warming up That keeps a manager of a tea is weak against l left t handers banders up in the air In order to protect himself he is forced to substitute a lot of ot players he has no intention of using In the lineup that he gives Elves the umpire He Ho does this so that after the pitching selections are anI an an- he can arrange his batting order I to suit conditions Therein lies the fallacy of ot the Strategy can you OU Imagine any business man paying a certain number of ot men a big salary and nd then have hi his manager do something that will Immediately eliminate nate these men from being of ot any use No r o in Indeed eed Yet that is a regular oc- oc In baseball Because of the bunk about delaying the pitching selections the manager of a I team is very often otten forced to put as many L I as four tour of his extra men m-en into his lineup Ho IIo does this to protect himself Then Thea when he ho gets the pitcher who he ho will work removes these men from the lineup and puts in his regulars Ills His act in once putting the the players Into lineup and then them removing them makes of no further use in that game Thus each day some club loses the services of or three or four players each at a cost of ot from to simply because the managers must play tricks Some of ot the major league managers do the sensible thing They mutually agree they will give their Intended pitcher pitch pitch- er Just before tho the game starts and then let the lineup be decided upon In this way there is no rio waste of material simply simply sim sim- ply because a manager wants to pull what he ho believes is wise stuff |