A Good Pitch Is Better Than a Wild Swing

Two recent biographies, Maybe I’ll Pitch Forever and My War With Baseball, contrast two famous baseball players’ eccentric attitudes toward their profession. “Satchel” Paige, a right-handed Negro pitcher, and Rogers Hornsby, a right-handed hitting second baseman, have described for the more avid baseball fan moments (most of them glorious) in their lives as professional ballplayers. A dispassionate reader’s review of the two books might tend to confirm a traditionally accepted professional opinion that pitching is still 75 per cent of the game.

Maybe I’ll Pitch Forever, by Leroy Paige and David Lipman. Doubleday, $4.50

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Two recent biographies, Maybe I’ll Pitch Forever and My War With Baseball, contrast two famous baseball players’ eccentric attitudes toward their profession. “Satchel” Paige, a right-handed Negro pitcher, and Rogers Hornsby, a right-handed hitting second baseman, have described for the more avid baseball fan moments (most of them glorious) in their lives as professional ballplayers. A dispassionate reader’s review of the two books might tend to confirm a traditionally accepted professional opinion that pitching is still 75 per cent of the game.

Maybe I’ll Pitch Forever, by Leroy Paige and David Lipman. Doubleday, $4.50