Clipping:Strategic pitching 2

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Date Saturday, January 20, 1883
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The pitchers of the professional teams have been taught by experience tha, while mere speed and the curve may be effective against weak batsmen, these features of pitching are of secondary important to strategic play, or “headwork,” in the delivery of the ball. The old plan of sending in swift curved balls, without any idea in their delivery save that of pitching as swiftly as possible, and as near the plate as the strictness of the umpire may require, has seen its best day, and new mere speed in pitching has been replaced by effective strategic combinations, by means of which a competent “headwork” pitcher contrives to out-manoeuvre the most experienced of batsmen.

Source New York Clipper
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Submitted by Richard Hershberger
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