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Show Twirler Cannot Always Pitch What He Wants to Managers that berate catchers for calling for the wrong ball, or pitchers for delivering the wrong ball to batsmen, bats-men, forget a few things, observes H. G. SaJsinger in the Detroit News. A pitcher cannot always pitch what he wants to pitch. He may try to curve a ball on the Inside and the ball will break on the outside. He may try to pitch just above the knees and the ball will get away from him and come to the batter waist high. A catcher may call for the right ball and the pitcher will be unable to deliver de-liver it. If the pitcher could always put the ball in the exact spot where he wanted want-ed to put it, baseball would perish in a few' months. Incidentally, managers forget that their players hit the deliveries de-liveries of other pitchers and therefore there-fore it is quite plausible that opposing oppos-ing batsmen should occasionally hit the deliveries of their own pitchers. Major league managers, with one or two exceptions, know less about pitching pitch-ing than about any other angle of baseball. base-ball. And the pity of it is that they assume an attitude which makes It impossible im-possible for them ever to learn. - |