mighty moose wrote:A lot of sarcasm in this forum lately. Is it due to global warming ?
You do realize we have a card from an era when the pitcher threw underhand from 50 feet away and the batter got to tell the pitcher where in the zone to throw the ball and the ball was soft to be caught by players not wearing gloves. And a catcher who doesn't even have a hit vs lefties or a Ball Park hit, yet still has positive clutch, naturally he is a Chicago Cub.
https://365.strat-o-matic.com/player/40 ... 292/465923. Any of the cards mentioned above makes more sense in a league of ALL TIME GREATS with the rules of the "game" throughout the 1870's to 1920.
We have Candy Cummings, who invented the curve interesting, but threw underhand as the rules stated, foul balls were outs and there fore was able to pitch 50 out of 80 games. Foul balls were strikes at the umpires discretion, It took 9 balls to get a walk, the first pitch could not be called a strike if the batter didn't swing. They didn't even really have a glove until the 1920's with Bill Doak creating the "web" and there wasn't a good glove till the A2000 in 1957.