Red osx pitchers and catchers 20173/15/2023 Ed Walsh, the great White Sox spitball pitcher, in 1908 won forty or practically half of his club’s games, to this day an individual pitching record, but alone he couldn’t offset his own ‘hitless wonders.’ Walter Johnson the swift, with over 400 victories, waited almost twenty years before his clubmates at Washington helped him to a championship. Ty Cobb, baseball genius, helped win pennants early in his career, but from 1909 through 1926, his last year at Detroit, he and his formidable array of hitters failed-they never found the right combination. Lopsided pennant failures are strewn throughout the record books. ![]() Good fielding and pitching, without hitting, or vice versa, is like Ben Franklin’s half a pair of scissors-ineffectual. ![]() A team equally strong in attack and in defense, well-proportioned as a unit, with, of course, those intangibles, morale, enthusiasm, and direction-that is the story of success in baseball. Baseball men agree with the philosopher that perfection-which means a pennant to them-is attainable only through a proper combination of opposites.
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