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Posted By: PC

A little OT, but anything related to Mathewson seems "in the ballpark". I believe this is one of only a couple of surviving video clips of Christy Mathewson pitching (and hitting):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1mASnW4YVXU

Really amazing to see. Notice he's hitting cross-handed, which was noted in Phil Seib's "The Player", and which I thought was odd and something that Mathewson surely corrected before he came to the Giants. I guess not.

Also cool to see the "World's Champions" jerseys that the Giants wore in 1906 (?). I wonder if any of those survive?

Not sure if this clip was taken from "Christy Mathewson and the New York National League Team", which is a short film from 1907. If anyone has a copy of that film, or a link to where it can be purchased, that would be appreciated.