Excerpt from Scientific Baseball: How to Play the Game
Christy Matthewson, who is probably the most successful pitcher in the business, is a man who all young fellows in the game might well follow, for he has mastered the science of the game from the pitcher's standpoint. Here is something he has said that will be of great interest to the baseball student. Read it over many times and then practice until you have attained perfection. That's the only way.
The value of a pitcher is almost invariably measured by his ability to change his pace or mix up the style of ball he is capable of delivering. Unless he can mix them up pretty well he is of little use against a clever team.
Of the various balls used by latter day pitchers the fast ball, which may have an inward shoot, outward shoot or upward shoot at the end of it, comes first. All pitchers must be able to use this ball with more or less success.
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