Word: sidearms
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Drysdale took the mound, National League batsmen made certain they stayed good and loose at the plate. "I've never thrown deliberately at a batter's head in my life," the 6-ft. 6-in. pitcher once said. What he unquestionably did do was snap off blazing sidearm fastballs and dancing curves with bullwhip fury. In the process, he set a lifetime league record for most hit batsmen (154). This year, the overpowering ace of the Los Angeles Dodger staff proved he had as much guts as the batters who had faced him during the past 13 seasons...
...half minute afterwards with Brown a man down, Ince passed from behind the net to Rick Frishee, who whipped a sidearm shot past the Brown gaolie, Roger Bollentin. Only 23 seconds later. Jim anderson tallied his team's fifth goal on a high pass from Cle Landolt. Bollentin had been doing a good job in the goal, but he did not seem to be able to stop these high shots...
Announcer: Don, tell us about your pitching style. Henry Aaron calls you a "mean" pitcher, and Willie Mays says your fastball, which has been clocked at 95.3 miles per hour, is especially hard to hit because you come in with it sidearm, like the Cincinnati Reds' great Ewell Blackwell used to do. With your whiplash delivery and your arms and legs flailing, you look like a man fighting his way out of a plastic bag. What's more, some of the players around the National League claim you're a "headhunter" because...
Drysdale: Let's take one thing at a time. First off, I throw sidearm because I started out as an infielder. My dad, who was once a minor-league hurler (as you guys call us), wouldn't let me pitch; he was afraid I'd get "Little League elbow." Now about that headhunting: absolutely not. If I deliberately tried to hit batters, I could knock down nine out of ten, like any other good pitcher. As for Vaseline, I never owned a jar of it. That's greasy kid stuff...
...overhand fastball, a nickel curve, and simplistic notions about strategy: if the bases were loaded and the count was 3 and 2, he threw the next pitch low and away. At least nobody ever hit him in a spot like that. Lemon taught him how to throw a sidearm fastball, a slider and a change of pace, and he also taught McGlothlin something about major-league hitters: "They're human, like everybody else...