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"He's coaching Grant, so the cowboy can act as second pitcher and help him out; but, if he realized he might be training a fellow to push him out of his place as the star twirler of the team, I guess he'd quit in a hurry." "Very likely he might," nodded Herbert. "No chap with real sense is going to be dunce enough to teach some one to rise above him."
It was finally stopped by Bradley being thrown to the ground, where he lay with the old sarcastic smile on his face. "You've done it now!" Frank gritted. "You ought to be shot." "You are none too good to commit a murder to kill an unarmed and defenseless man." "If you don't keep that twirler of yours reefed I'll tie it up!" Jimmie declared, with a threatening motion.
This, however, is often the case with many pitchers who are more than passably successful; to the outsider, to the watcher from the stand or the bleachers, the pitcher frequently seems to be the man who is pitting his brains and skill against the brains and skill of the opposing batters and delivering the goods, when the actual fact remains that it is the man at the "receiving end" who is doing nine-tenths of the thinking, and without whose discernment, sagacity, skill and directing ability, the twirler would make a pitiful show of himself.
"Fellars, look at that guy who's goin' to pitch," suddenly spoke up one of the team. Many as were the country players whom we seasoned and traveled professionals had run across, this twirler outclassed them for remarkable appearance.
Raddy knew it; he sized up that swing, and now I know it. Get wise, you its!" When old Spears pasted a single through shortstop, the Buffalo manager took Clary out of the box and put in Vane, their best pitcher. Bogart advanced the runner to second, but was thrown out on the play. Then Rube came up. He swung a huge bat and loomed over the Bison's twirler. Rube had the look of a hitter.
Clearport did come near pulling it out of the fire actually batted out a lead of one run in the first of the ninth. If Wyndham hadn't come back in her half and made two tallies, she'd been stung." "I hear," said Berlin Barker, "that Clearport pounded Wyndham's wonderful new twirler off the slab." "That's right," said Nelson. "They got at Newbert in the seventh and gave him fits.
The uniforms of these country amateurs would have put a Philadelphia Mummer's parade to the blush, at least for bright colors. But after one amused glance I got down to the stern business of the day, and that was to discover a pitcher, and failing that, baseball talent of any kind. Never shall I forget my first glimpse of the Rickettsville twirler.
"They've had all their luck; it's over." Crane, following Eliot, made the mistake of trying for a long hit, and Sanger fanned him. Grant came up with two men out. "Here's the great cowboy twirler, cap," sneered Copley. "Put the iron to him. Burn your brand deep." "Get a hit, Grant do get a hit!" came the entreaty from the Oakdale crowd.
I noted that he seemed to forget the runners on bases and delivered the ball without glancing at either bag. Of course this resulted in a double steal. The ball went wild almost a wild pitch. "Steady up, old man," called Gregg between the yells of the bleachers. He held his mitt square over the plate for the Rube to pitch to. Again the long twirler took his swing, and again the ball went wild.
In a twinkling, William Philander was completely surrounded. "What's it all about?" "Is it a fight?" "Who are they cheering?" "It's all about Mr. W. P. Tubbs, Esq.," cried Tom, loudly. "Our new, double back-action, warranted, baseball twirler; the man who is going to shoot 'em over the plate in such a marvelous fashion that our rivals will go down and out in one, two, three order."
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