Wow, exactly 50 years ago today I started my last high school baseball game against our local rivals. It was a double header and coach put our best Lefty out there, a hard thrower who ended up being drafted by the Pirates. I was the distant second pitcher that season, with my future to be more focused on academics than sports. He had the fastball, I had a drop curve that had a big bend in it, but I was much much slower than our #1 guy. He got bombed in the first game of the double header, we lost 6-3. Between games Coach came up to me and told me to warm up, I was throwing the second game .
Ended up I was sooo slow and the previous pitcher was much faster, so I threw everyone off with my "slow" fastball. And I kept throwing junk (slow curves, etc.) at them and they were way off balance. We ended up winning 2-1 and I even got a line drive single and scored one run .
Fast forward 48 years (2 years ago) and my kids got me to throw out the First Pitch at a Mizzou college game:
Just in case you wondered if it was a strike:
Cheers!
TomK
Ended up I was sooo slow and the previous pitcher was much faster, so I threw everyone off with my "slow" fastball. And I kept throwing junk (slow curves, etc.) at them and they were way off balance. We ended up winning 2-1 and I even got a line drive single and scored one run .
Fast forward 48 years (2 years ago) and my kids got me to throw out the First Pitch at a Mizzou college game:
Just in case you wondered if it was a strike:
Cheers!
TomK