Word: mathewson
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Second Game began with the solemn memorial exercises for Christy Mathewson (see below). A heavy mist made it hard to follow the ball. In the sixth inning Aldridge (Pittsburgh) hit boyish-faced Bluege behind the ear with a pitched ball. Spectators moaned. Having just commemorated one death, they feared they had witnessed another. Bluege revived, walked off the field. Moist-handed Pitcher Coveleskie, the Polish Spitballer (Washington), did well until the eighth inning when with the score tied, Kiki Cuyler (Pittsburgh) knocked a home run into the convenient right-field fence. Washington retaliated by filling the bases with none...
Strong men are rare. Once in ten years, or twenty perhaps, one rises up, tempered and knowing, warden of an imperious secret. He lasts a little longer or goes a little harder than another before his strength, too, crumbles, and Death takes him. Last week it took Christy Mathewson...
...Manchester, N. H., lives an elderly policeman named John Smith. He was manager of the Norfolk Club in a Virginia minor league when Mathewson, a big boy, knock-kneed and ungainly, was starting with a team from Taunton. John Smith saw him pitch a game in Manchester and lose 6-5 and signed him for a season with the Virginia club...
...Mathewson had just graduated from Bucknell University, where he had pitched good college ball- exceptionally good college ball. A friendly enemy of his was Eddie Plank, a left-handed youth, who went to Gettysburg College. In 1905 Mathewson pitched again against this Eddie Plank in the World series. Between the college games and that 1905 series was a story known to almost everyone in the U. S.-the story of how Mathewson, after one brilliant season with Smith's Norfolkers, was bought by the New York Giants, how he had perfected his famed "fadeaway," studied the personal weaknesses...
Certainly no baseball pitcher, perhaps no player in any game, had a triumph equal to Mathewson's in the famed World Series of 1905. Plank, the mainstay of the Athletics, was a fine pitcher, heady and fast, but he could be scored on, Mathewson could not. There were other men with the Giants besides Mathewson; occasionally they came up to bat; they did not have much else to do. While the enormous crowds shouted themselves into a frenzy, and small boys and statesmen muttered his name in their sleep-a name heard round far more of the world than...