How to play base ball . is necessary for this.• Left handed batters are usually considered less likely to hita left handed pitcher. I suppose this is largely because successfulleft handed pitching is less common than right, but I think thereis another reason. The most effective ball against a left handedbatter is one close to him and high. To throw this a righthanded pitcher is likely to use an out curve, which is much easierto throw and broader than an inshoot. Thus the batter with theball coming to him has time to step back and swing. With usleft banders our out curve is away from a left han
How to play base ball . is necessary for this.• Left handed batters are usually considered less likely to hita left handed pitcher. I suppose this is largely because successfulleft handed pitching is less common than right, but I think thereis another reason. The most effective ball against a left handedbatter is one close to him and high. To throw this a righthanded pitcher is likely to use an out curve, which is much easierto throw and broader than an inshoot. Thus the batter with theball coming to him has time to step back and swing. With usleft banders our out curve is away from a left handed the left handed batter is driven away from the plate toescape being hit, and is in a poor position to swing with theball going away from. him. I seldom try much of a curve myselfon left banders, however, depending on a high straight ballclose to the corner of the plate nearest the batter. I have often been asked why south paws are more erraticand more likely to have bad innings and bad days than right. RUSIEIn position for a sweeping out curve with a slow ball. Ho%v to Flay Base Ball. 49 handers. I dont know, but it is a fact as well that left bandersdo not last as long in tbe business as right handed pitchers. Ihold to the theory, often advanced, that it is because the left armis nearest the heart and the muscles of the heart are thus sub-jected to strain. Often after a game all the muscles in the breastand near my heart have been sore, although I have never felt anytrouble with my heart itself. While left handers are more likelyto be wild than right handers, when they are effective they usuallyhold the opposing team down to a few hits. Now, I have beenso wild that I have had to be taken out of the box at times, andagain it has seemed as if every ball I pitched the opposing teamcould hit, yet I hold the strike-out record of the National Leaguein recent years. I made this against Chicago while playing withLouisville in 1899. Fourteen of Burns men fanned in tha
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