[net.sport.baseball] On Switch Pitching

mojo@kepler.UUCP (Morris Jones) (08/25/85)

I found an interesting quote in _Nine Innings_ by Daniel Okrent, p. 37
(Ticknor & Fields, New York, 1985):

	Then, too, [Calvin] McLish was a major leaguer.  He had first
     entered the big leagues in the Brooklyn Dodgers organization but had
     attained major league prominence with the Cleveland Indians in the
     1950s.  He also earned some notoriety when, pitching in Venezuela
     one winter early in his career, he removed his glove, dropped it on
     the mound behind him, and threw his next pitch lefty.
	The opposing team squawked, the umpires fulminated, and
     McLish was instructed that his effort was illegal.  It wasn't, of
     course, but its conclusion ended the experiment that might have
     produced the first switch pitcher.

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Mojo
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