Fillmore Progress | 1915-02-12 | Page 7 | Mental Strain in Baseball

I 1 1 1 MENTAL STRAIN IN baseball considerable nerve required to faco face pitcher with fast ball says saya former varsity guard A group of former varsity football players were nero arguing tho the interesting point as to which requires more nerve on the part of participants football or baseball one would think there would not be a dissenting voice to tho tha opinion that the gridiron sport re quires far more nerve yet there were several who strenuously debated this contention holding that the mental strain was greater upon the man who plays baseball 1 I played varsity baseball and varsity football said one man of the group and I 1 want to tell you that the only time I 1 ever felt inward tremors was waa when I 1 stood at the plate facing IL A pitcher who had a fast ball there Is something about the situation or a always was to me which made me feet feel my helplessness mado made me feel at the mercy of the pitcher or rather at tho mercy of his possible bad aim aam in football you were fighting against one man and he had nothing to throw at you 1 I feel the same way chimed in a former v varsity guard when I 1 camo came from prep school I 1 had a reputation as a pitcher but I 1 never tried for the tha team because I 1 the nervo nerve to face tho the shoots of varsity pitchers the curious thing Is that this man was waa in tits his day one of the most daring and resourceful backs backa playing tho game