#Shortstops: Striking Mathewson
Mathewson, a right-handed pitcher mostly for the New York Giants, won 373 games over a 17-year career. While dominating on the mound throughout the early 1900s, Mathewson was a quiet man, described by Eddie Frierson as having “lifted the rowdy world of baseball to gentlemanliness.”
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