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¥IAV VIVIAAV V VOW MWAiftVO VA4MVhad shut the Yanks out a few days before, had skinned his finger so that he could not .pitch his knuckle ball effectively and had left the game. Presently the tali, lank figure of a man came shuffling up the field in a red coat sweater from the bull pen where he had been sleeping on a bench in a corner. He had not been warming up as he had pitched the day before and was not expected to enter into the fray again. But here he comes slouching along with his undersize cap on his head cockeyed. I told him that I thought he never would reach the pitching mound, that the mob had cooled down, but that my heart was pounding like a triphammer.“Well,” Alex says, “I was working on Tony. He was nervous and I didn’t want to be.”“Well,” I said, “what did Hornsby really say to you when you finally reached the ibox?”““Well, IRog saj(» ‘There's two out and three on and Lazzeri up— it’s a pretty tight spot Alex,’ slapping me on the shoulder.”“Three on eh, well there’s no place to put ’em in a case like that' is there?” And then Alex the Great proceeded to tell me that “I was not nervous, why should 1 be nervous? I ain’t got any nerves. Besides, how about Lazzeri ? There was the kid to be sorry for. I figured he would expect me to have control and would swing at anything, so I cut a curve inside. Hestepped back and took it. Then I figured he might think I was still cold and a bit wild, so I hooked a strike that broke into the plate. He took that. Then he saw I could find the plate with a hook and he figured he’d better be swinging. So I cut another ball on the inside so well inside that he couldn’t do anything but foul it if he hit it. He did foul it a nice solid foul into the seats in left.” (I told him my heart came up into my throat and almost choked me when that happened) and Alex continued, “Fouls are strikes at that stage, and he had two of them. He was in a hole now. I figured he’d climb the fence for the next one, so I buzzed a hook that broke a foot outside the plate and he went fishing and got himself a lot of air.
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Canton Commercial Advertiser
Canton, New York, US
Tue, Jul 19, 1932
Page 3
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