Post by glasspoet on Nov 28, 2011 1:15:42 GMT -5
I've told you some stories of pre-1900 great players. But if you go to blog-sites dealing with pre-1900 players, you'll generally find a consensus that the greatest of them all was Buck Ewing (a catcher).
Was he a great hitter? No (he wasn't bad, but far from great). It was his ARM. Old-timers, for decades piled on decades, would claim no catcher had an arm like Buck Ewing!! In a critical spot, he would deliberately let the ball get away from him, as much as it would take to get a runner to take off--and almost always threw them out easily!
There are some baseball researchers who are gathering old (OLD) newspaper articles in the attempt to prove that he single-handedly WON MORE BASEBALL GAMES THAN ANYONE ELSE IN THE HISTORY OF THE GAME.
I never saw him throw, but it must have been some arm he had!
Was he a great hitter? No (he wasn't bad, but far from great). It was his ARM. Old-timers, for decades piled on decades, would claim no catcher had an arm like Buck Ewing!! In a critical spot, he would deliberately let the ball get away from him, as much as it would take to get a runner to take off--and almost always threw them out easily!
There are some baseball researchers who are gathering old (OLD) newspaper articles in the attempt to prove that he single-handedly WON MORE BASEBALL GAMES THAN ANYONE ELSE IN THE HISTORY OF THE GAME.
I never saw him throw, but it must have been some arm he had!