Show REIN kice WHILE watching a various as sort ment of pitchers and so ailed pitchers give up 68 walks brough the world series one begins 0 wonder what has become of base aj s real pitchers watching burt shotton vainly try ng to find one pitcher who could go five innings just N one pitcher in s seven men games one begins to wonder again if the art of pitching isn t really lost from the stars we have known aft from the old days of real pitchers we learned that a good pitcher needs lust just three things a fast t bau ball a curve G alexander ball and control walter johnson needed only a fast all and control today pitchers are coking to a slider a knuckle ball i screw ball a almost ev grything except control imagine a dodger pitching staff hat chasn t a pitcher who can travel ive lve innings the yankees were only t little better off they had a fellow lamed shea and a relief pitcher lamed page these took care of ahree of the tour four games the yankees aron the only pitcher the dodgers had vas a big husky fellow known as lugh casey casey was the dodger itching staff the dodgers needed urn uni in only six of their seven games we U 11 name a few great pitch ers for you if you ve for forgotten 9 otten their names cy young wal ter johnson christy mathew son chief bender eddie plank grover cleveland alexander addie joss ed walsh smoky joe wood carl hubbell lefty grove dizzy dean these are J just a I 1 few ew walsh aish used a and hubbell ased a screw ball the others had he three ingredients we have men honed matty picked up his fade facie way after he hurt his arm and lost art of his speed they rhey had control most of these pitchers could work n 45 or 50 games ed walsh worked n 66 games m 1908 winning 40 and acing 12 others jack chesbro be angs m this list he won 41 games or the yankees in 1904 above everything else they knew chere the pitch was going or at east cast within an inch or so of the pot alexander could pitch into a in cup 1 I was thinking of these old timers chile watching such pitchers as aranca barney gregg and others hut their eyes while trying to keep he ball in the same lot home late home plate might as well lave been in another city bob feller was a much better utcher than he is today when he anaed on a fast ball a fair curve ind control the two best pitchers we had carting this season were feller and lew houser together they won 37 ames and dropped 28 23 during 1947 ghis is certainly no record to rave dizzy dean was the best pitcher ve seen in many years diz de ended on speed a curve change if f pace and control he won 58 games ames in two years before his arm pent went bad due largely to post sea on exhibition games one of the best pitchers I 1 ever aw is barely known or remembered oday his name was addie joss of leveland joss was 6 feet 3 he iad a fast ball a curve ball and addle addie pitched eight one hit tames he worked in the greatest pitch ng duel of all time or at least it vas close this was against ed walsh late in the season of 1908 hm Is vague in this game joss pitched nine perfect innings no white sox beached first base ed walsh the oser struck out 15 indians and al owed one hit as I 1 recall it joss night well have had five or six no tit lit games most of the pitchers that come along today haven t the slightest idea of what control means they rear back and give you all they have with no particular target in mind when in trouble they go to a slider a sinker a a knuckle ball or some other degenerate form of pitch ing that wears out the arm and certainly doesn doean t help to get the ball over the plate every time I 1 bat against alex ander johnny evers told me years go I 1 want to throw my bat away ie never gives me a ball I 1 can hit ie le could drive a nail with a pitch arst its it s low and inside but over move back and it s low and out ide but still over a corner comer if you recall the details alex inder won only 94 ball games from through 1917 he won 28 games is a rookie with the futile phillies nd ind he started and finished scally every game yet shotton couldn coulden t dig up a sin lle ie pitcher who could finish five inn fortunately for shotton bucky larns larris was in about the same shape lie be number of pitchers used in this a ast st series was a disgrace to the rt and science of pitching |