“Joe, you’ve got it wrong. Have you been pitching that way all the while?”
“Always.”
“No wonder they have been hitting you. Let me show you something. Stand behind me.”
The old pitcher threw at the fence. Joe was amazed at the way the ball behaved. It would have puzzled the best of batters.
“How did you do it?” asked Joe, wonderingly.
“By using a different control, and holding the ball differently. I’ll show you. You need a new hold.”
[CHAPTER XX]
JOE’S TRIUMPH
Then began a lesson, the learning of which proved of great value to Joe in his after life as a ball player. If Old Pop Dutton had not the nerve to “come back” as a pitcher in a big league, at least he could show a rising young one how to correct his faults. And a fault Joe certainly had.