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Identifier: howtoplaybasebal00mcgr (find matches)
Title: How to play baseball, a manual for boys
Year: 1914 (1910s)
Authors: McGraw, John Joseph, 1873-1934. (from old catalog)
Subjects: Baseball
Publisher: New York and London, Harper & brothers
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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he is practicinghis swing with no runners on the bases. This isthe style of placing the feet, which may makeor break a twirler. When ready to deliver the ball he shouldstand with both feet flat on the rubber, thearch of each foot on it, and the feet an equaldistance from the batter and about fifteen toeighteen inches apart, the distance being ad-justable to the pitchers build and length ofleg. Both feet are even or parallel in this po-sition and flat on the rubber. The ball is heldup against the breast before starting theswing. Then take the swing, as already di-rected, and try to feel the pitch start fromdown at the base of the spine. That meansyou are getting your back into it, and yourarm will be working simply as a whip to snapthe ball away and regulate its direction. Be sure to cover the ball up with yourgloved hand before starting the swing (thatis, when the ball is held against your chest)because batters soon get to look at the posi-tion of the fingers to get a line on what to
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