This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1910 edition. Excerpt: ... PITCHING Pitching is the most highly developed, most skillful and most important part of baseball, requiring more thought, more strength and more brains than any other position demands. Good pitching is the absolute essential to victory, and, considered in relation to the "inside game," is vital, for ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1910 edition. Excerpt: ... PITCHING Pitching is the most highly developed, most skillful and most important part of baseball, requiring more thought, more strength and more brains than any other position demands. Good pitching is the absolute essential to victory, and, considered in relation to the "inside game," is vital, for unless the pitcher understands every move of his fellow players, and adjusts his pitching to the plan, the "inside game" becomes worse than useless. The development of the science of pitching has, from the inception of the game, been in advance of the development of the other departments of play and to such an extent that the rule makers from the first have found it necessary to legislate to handicap the pitcher to prevent him from becoming absolute master of the game. In spite of the rules the pitchers have by persistent work and thought kept in advance of the progress of the national sport. Involving the study of wind pressures, dynamics, physics, and mathematics, in addition to the principles of the game itself, pitching is an art demanding closest attention at every instant, the concentration of every energy upon the game, so much so that in almost every game the pitchers lose all track of the number of innings played, of the score itself, forget the crowd, and neither hear the cheers nor hisses, because their minds are so focused on the batters. The story of the development of the art of pitching from the days of the straight arm, underhand pitch to the present is one of constant discoveries and triumphs, until, in the educated fingers of the great masters of the art, the ball seems endowed with life. The days of the underhand pitch were the kindergarten days of the game, and with the coming of overhand pitching the science began to...
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