Show I bJ Wf f Dr bILL bILLy tt- tt t I T fY 1 sO 0 O 2 THE TilE MOST rOST L IL BiT T B TING T TI TIG TI G RECORD I 1 EVER EYER S W S W Walt Wait the pitcher out It IC wild Make him pitch That has long been a 0 slogan In Therein lies the value of ofa ofa s a good off lead manIn manIn man manIn In the of baseball only one major league pia placer er has e eer ever er re- re re received ceh cei ed six bases on balls In one game Walter Valter the great outfielder I ot of the old Chicago Nationals achieved achieved ed that t distinction back In 1891 1 No other plover er In either Ither major league ha ever equaled it It Fh e bases bass on balls in one game stands standI as the American league record It being held jointly b by five Cbs th e players Roger Hoger of ot the Wash ash Washington Washington ington club then with the New York Yankees Yankee was tile the last player to turn the trick It was back In 1919 1319 at Philadelphia I t nas as as umpiring the plate a batsman bauman to work nork ork a pitcher for tor rh five e bas boars hast's s on balls Is out of ot the ordinary How JIO ever eter the manner In III which walked each time males his Ills teat feat eat stand out as just I i I little bit different I regard It by far as the greatest I have e eer ever er seen came to bat five lve tImes and oil on no occasion was he call call- called ed cd upon to or hit bit It If I re- re remember remember re remember member correctly he ho was the first firstman firstman firstman man up In each Inning Not once during that ball ban game nith Ith tho the Athletics did een so much as swing at a ball He would step Into the batters batter's bo boi with hIs bat on his shoulder and simply loot look them over oser I IOn On three occasions the count was three balls and two strikes when lie he walked the tha other two times up It was t two to o and two ItI I I seriously doubt It if the records ot of the game contain another such In- In instance In Instance stance where a player up five times didn't swing at a 1 ball and walled walked each Ume time Tomorrow Greatest rookie pitch pitch- pitching ing I ever saw |