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Posted By: jay behrens

There still seems to be this huge misconcetion that pitchers prior to WW2 threw just as hard pitchers today. This simply isn't true on a pitch by pitch basis. Did they have the ability to throw 100mph? Sure, and Johnson, Feller and others most likely did. But they did not go out and throw their absolute hardest with every pitch like they do today.

I've read many interviews with pitchers from that era that stated they rarely threw their hardest except in certain situations. Back then, they knew there was no one to come in off the bench to save a game for them and that they were more than likely ahve to pitch at least 8 innings.

Jay

I like to sit outside drink beer and yell at people. If I did this at home I would be arrested, so I go to baseball games and fit right in.