It will be seen that the "inside" game sometimes fails. Many a time I have passed a catcher or good batter to take a chance on a pitcher, and then have had him make a hit just when hits were not at all welcome. I walked a catcher once and had the pitcher shove the ball over first base for a single, when he closed his eyes and dodged back in an effort to get his head out of the line he thought it was pursuing before it curved. In ducking, he got his bat in front of the ball, a result he had never obtained with his eyes open. Once I started to pass "Hans" Wagner in a pinch to take a chance on the next batter, and was a little careless in throwing the ball too close to the plate. He reached out and slapped it for a single. Again the "inside" game had failed. Speaking pretty generally, most managers prefer to use this "inside" game, though, and there are few vacancies in the Big Leagues right now for the man who is liable to steal second with the bases full. Transcriber's Notes: Passages in italics are indicated by _italics_. Punctuation has been corrected without note. The following misprints have been corrected: "Crounds" corrected to "Grounds" (page 65) "temperameut" corrected to "temperament" (page 69) "penant" corrected to "pennant" (page 205) "te ephone" corrected to "telephone" (page 263) "innnings" corrected to "innings" (page 282) Other than the corrections listed above, inconsistencies in hyphenation have been retained from the original. End of Project Gutenberg's Pitching in a Pinch, by Christy Mathewson