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Show Ball players are like actOTfl in one respect. A great many of them seek to do the things they can't do. In vaudeville it is quite customary for the actor who Is very ib.yer at dancing to insist on putting a lot J of singing in hin act an vice v res In baseball it is not uncommon to sec the recruit infielders practicing i In the outfield, while the OUttleldere j are scattered around the infield dur-I dur-I lng batting practice. In other respeet9 players have a habit of doing stunts at which they I aro not proficient, and very oten i said stunts play havoc with their ! work anJ their team's chances to win. j Very often you find some pitcher who has enough ordinary stuff to j get by with constantly experlment- Ing with some new type of delivery , that tends to rob him of some of his stuff and thereby greatly lesson his effectiveness. The slow ball, for Instance, Is a difficult deliver with which to get 1 results iti order to have a slow J ball prove troublesome to the bats-j bats-j man it must be delivered with exactly ex-actly tho same motion as the fast ball This It a rather difficult thing to do. With a grant many pitchers there is a slight difference between i the way the fast and kIow ball is de-; de-; live red. That difference very' otlon is fatal, for it tips off the coming of tho slow ball and makes it possible for the batsman to get ready for it. In the American 'league last year j there was a certain pitcher who , would be rated In the first five. Early j last year this particular pitcher resorted re-sorted to the use of a certain style of delivery that for a time almost ruined his effectiveness. Using his regular repertoire he was nlmos unbeatable. The introduction I of the new delivery, which- was soft i picking, made hint only an ordinary I pitcher It took a lot of persuasion to point out the error of his methods meth-ods The moment he went hack to his old style he started to win with I regularity I know another pitcher who should be one of the greatest pitchers In the history of the game. He is that type of pitcher when the score i close or hin team is trailing. Let his team get him n commanding lead and lie becomes a very ordinary pitcher. The reason Is written around the ; depire of this pitcher to experiment the moment he has a working margin. mar-gin. The pitcher likes to affect a ! Aide arm delivery, and a cross-fire, and two or three other things when he is two or three runs to the good 'ITie moment he so Hitches he becomes be-comes wild and Is easy to hit |