| Show the throwers of curves the unexpected is bound to happen h baseball said pat recently no man knows this better than I 1 I 1 ivas much interested in the training of he pittsburg team during my visit to ho springs it makes me smile to bear people say that such a world beating pitcher cannot give out all at nce that there must be a gradual de une etc george cuppy was with me it cleveland and I 1 brought him aver io st louis when we moved the team I 1 guess there was never a bet ter pitcher in those days than cuppy pet his cunning left him one day while tie was changing his shirt or some hing the year we moved from cleveland to st louis cuppy seemed n his best shape at the spring train ng but he was joke when it came pitching in the race I 1 never saw i mandrop from a adib in a ay as did cuppy but he surely did do us tha very thing talk about rules hurting pitchers don t believe it I 1 have never known rule that was not made for the bet arment of the game and it it did not erve the purpose etwas soon reveal di amendments in p aching rules lave saved or made more pitchers than they ever destroyed there s cy young training here now for his annual stunt ath boston and the chances are he will be as good as ever what has saved cy and made him fit to gd ahe distance 7 simple life say you fudge say I 1 it s noth ing more or less than the foul strike rule that s what baked cy young years ago he would have been back on the farm but the foul strike rule came along and put a brace under him and he Is the boy who worked that rule for all it v as worth without fear of successful contra diction I 1 say that cy young was and has been benefited more by the foul strike than any other six pitchers in both leagues he was always a swift man and used the outside corner er he could and nine times out of ten when that ball was not met square before it came halt way across the plate it was a foul 1 have seen long fouls sent to the fence time and again on young efforts which would have counted for naught under the old rules but under tha new rule the first two count as es cy should thank his stars for the foul strike rule it has kept him in the game |
