How to play base ball . y 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 oitt curve is away from a left h
How to play base ball . y 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 oitt 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. Hoio to Play Base Ball. .49 banders. I dont know, but it is a fact as well tbat left bandersdo not last as long in tbe business as rigbt handed pitcbers. Ibold to tbe theory, often advanced, tbat it is because the left armis nearest tbe heart and tbe muscles of the heart are thus sub-jected to strain. Often after a game all tbe muscles in tbe breastand near my heart have been sore, although I have never felt anytrouble with my heart itself. While left banders are more likelyto be wild than right banders, 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 bold tbe strike-out record of the National Leaguein recent years. I made this against Chicago while playing withLouisville in 1^99. Fourteen of Burns men fanned in tbat game,and the papers all thought I was a great fellow. Th
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