Show W WHILE HILE watching a various assortment sort ment of pitchers and so sailed alle d pitchers give up 68 walks brough the world series one begins a 4 wonder what has become of base laus alls real pitchers watching burt shotton vainly try ng to find and one pitcher who could go five innings just one pitcher in seven games one begins to wonder again if the art of pitching really lost fr from the stars wo we have known from the old days ot of real pitchers we learned that a good pitcher needs just three things a tast fast alu a curve G alexander ball and control valter johnson needed only a fast lall and control today pitchers are boking to a slider a knuckle ball i screw ball a dafler almost ev try grything thing except control imagine a dodger pitching staff hat a pitcher who can travel ive innings the yankees were only i little better off they had a fellow tamed shea and a relief pitcher tamed lamed page these took care of ahree of the four games the yankees von the only pitcher the dodgers had was vas a big husky fellow known as lugh casey casey was the dodger ahching staff the dodgers needed tim lim in only six of their seven games well name a few great pitchers for you if youve forgotten their names cy young walter johnson christy mathewson chief bender eddie plank grover cleveland alexander addle joss ed walsh smoky joe wood carl hubbell lefty grove dizzy dean these are just a few walsh used a and hubbell ased a screw ball the others had he three ingredients we have men boned matty picked up his tade fade way iway after he hurt his bis arm and lost lart art of his speed vhey had control most of these pitchers could work n 45 or 50 games ed walsh worked n 66 games in 1908 winning 40 and laving 12 others jack chesbro be angs in this list he won 41 games or the yankees in 1904 above everything else they knew chere the pitch was going or at east within an inch or so of the pot alexander could pitch into a in cup I 1 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 rome home late latea home plate might as well lave been in another city bob feller was a much better atcher than he Is today when he iankes on a fast ball a fair curve nd control the two best pitchers we had starting It tar arting ting this season were feller and Tew houser together they won 37 games ames and dropped 28 during 1947 chis is certainly no record to rave gibout dizzy dean was the best pitcher ive ve seen in many years diz de ended on speed a curve change t f pace and control he won 58 53 games ames in two years before his arm went vent bad due largely to post sea on lon exhibition games one of the best pitchers I 1 ever law is is barely known or remembered oday I 1 Us his name was addle addie joss of I 1 Ne leveland beveland joss was 6 feet 3 he lad iad a fast ball a curve ball and addle addie pitched eight one hit games ames he worked in the greatest pitch ng duel of all time or at least it was vas close this was against ed kalsh late in the season of 1908 aim 4 im Is vague in this game joss pitched nine berfect innings no white sox cached first base ed walsh the oser struck out ia indians ad and al owed one hit as I 1 recall it joss night well have had five or six no lit games most of the pitchers that come along today the slightest idea of what control means they rear back and give you yon 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 pitching that wears out the arm and certainly help to get the ball over the plate every time I 1 bat against alexinder alexander johnny evers told me years go ago 1 I want to throw my bat away le ie never gives me a ball I 1 can hit le could drive a nail with a pitch first its low and inside but over move back and its low and out ilde but still over a corner comer if you recall the details alexinder won only 91 94 ball games from 1915 through 1917 he won 23 28 games is a rookie with the futile phillies Phi lUes nd ind he started and finished icalla every game yet shotton dig up a sintie single pitcher who could finish fenish five inn fortunately for shotton bucky jarris was in about the same shape ebe number of pitchers used in this ast series was wa a disgrace to the th and science of pitching |