Who invented relief pitching?
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If you talk to Cardinals TV broadcaster, Al "The Mad Hungarian" Hrabosky, he invented relief pitching and claims that middle relief pitchers are the greatest thing to happen to baseball since the invention of baseball bats.
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Fernando Tatis on April 23, 1999 and the pitcher who gave it up was at that time Chan Ho Park for the LA Dodgers.  Hope this helps.
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Philo T. Farnsworth \nhttp://www.ideafinder.com/history/inventors/farnsworth.htm
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Some say that Abner Doubleday invented the sport of baseball, but I have read a book saying that Alexander Cartwright did.  Go to wikipedia.org and type in baseball.  They have a part called History.  That should help you.
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A few reasons. 1). The five man rotation which cuts down a pitcher's starts to around 30-32 games a season. Up until the start of the 162 game era, pitchers could routinely pitch 38-40+ games a year. Cy Young started 906 games in his 20+ years as a pitcher. 2). To protect their multi-million $ investments, teams "baby" their pitchers so they rarely pitch on less than 3-4 days rest or throw in between starts. Which leads to 3). More time on the DL (and less starts) because they don't throw as much to build up arm strength and brings us to 4).The pitch count. You think Warren Spahn was ever pulled after throwing 110 pitches? Which gave birth to 5). The advent of the middle relief specialists. You can thank Tony LaRussa for bringing in a left handed reliever in the 7th to face one batter. Go 8 innings with the lead and you control your chance to win. Get pulled in the 6th or 7th and you leave it to a guy who couldn't cut it as a starter. A 20 game winner used to be the gold standard. Now it's 15. Who said today's players are much better than the players from the past?
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not me. Was he the guy that started the baseball equipment company?
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The pitchers name is Tracy Stallard and he was pitching for the Red Sox.  It was actually the only run Stallard gave up that game.\n\nMatt
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the origins off baseball began for me in jeffery reif's back yard. everymornig i'd rush out back, and hop the fence to play make believe games of baseball on the clover covered lot of my best friend , jeffery reif.  over the years this evolved into steet stick ball, then little league. and now 50years later after playing in 6 different decades,as a little league coach i pass on the things i learned along the way... including all the things i learned from jeffery reif on his cover coverd lawn.
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Roosevelt.\n\nyankees.mlb.com/NASApp/mlb/nyy/baseball_basics/nyy_basics_batter.jsp
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Bob Feller is considered the first pitcher to throw the baseball over 100 mpm. He played for the Cleveland Indians in the 40s and 50s. Today, his plaque hangs on the wall of the hall of fame.
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Then why are you mooching two free points, Susan.  i.e. Reported.  Quit answering when you have no answer.\n\nAnswer: Fernando Tatis of the St. Louis Cardinals on 04-23-1999 in the third inning against Chan Ho Park.
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He was a great pitcher in the 70's I think... He was one of the first pitchers to use an effective sidearm throw.  He was well respected and one of the leaders in his time.  I would try to find out more about him and try to contact him.  He really seems like a great guy! (Good Luck!!)
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Eddie Feighner...The King and His Court\nI saw that guy strike out people pitching from second base. He was unbelievable.
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Has to be Grover (Pete) Alexander's rookie season in 1911.\n\nHe went 28 wins & 13 losses with a 2.57 ERA.
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Do you mean Emil "Hill Billy" Bildilli?  He didn't pitch until the 1930s (for the St. Louis Browns), but that's the closest name I know of.
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Baseball Origin Controversy \n\n\nBased on old American fokelore, baseball's storied invention was by a young West Point cadet named Abner Doubleday. In the summer of 1839, in Cooperstown, New York, Doubleday supposedly started the game of baseball. Because of numerous types of baseball, or rather games similar to it, the orgian of the game has been disputed for decades by sports historians all over the world. In 1839, in Cooperstown, New York, Doubleday supposedly started the game of baseball. Doubleday, also a famous Union general during the Civil War, was said to be the inventor of baseball by Abner Graves, an elderly minor from New York. In response to the question of where baseball first originated, major leage owners summoned a committee in 1907. Abner Graves stepped before the committe and gave his testimony. In Graves' account of "the first game," the Otsego Academy and Cooperstown's Green's Select School played against ne another in 1839. Committeemean Alber G. Spalding, the founder of Spalding's Sporting Goods, favored Graves' declaration and convinced the other committeemen that Grave's account was true. As a result, in 1939, the commitee and the State of New York named Cooperstown and Abner Doubleday as the birthplace and the inventor.
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I played outfield. We had a coach who used to set a pitching machine at maximum speed from home plate to toss balls high into the outfield.  we had to stand and point to where the ball was going to land rather than run and catch it (that came later)  It was great practice for judging the flight of the ball and being able to anticipate where to run to catch the ball.