DRAWING PITCHERS.(baseball)

Publication: The New Yorker

Publication Date: 24-OCT-05

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Michael Witte, an illustrator, enjoys his work but finds that the artist's life can be lonely. So, a few years ago, to relieve the monotony of his days, he installed a twenty-seven-inch television in his attic studio overlooking the Hudson River in Nyack. He liked playing tapes of old baseball games, and found himself frequently pausing to watch the windups of Hall of Fame pitchers, frame by frame. "One of the things I discovered is that the mechanics of the greatest pitchers are consistent throughout the history of the game," he said the other day. During the course of his...

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