Leslie Mann Baseball Lantern Slide, No, 181

Title:: Leslie Mann Baseball Lantern Slide, No, 181
Description:: A player for the St. Louis Cardinals stands with both of his feet on the rubber pitching slab located on the middle of the pitching mound as he gazes towards second base with his body turned away from the camera and home plate. There is an unidentified person who does not appear to be a player standing in the infield behind him between first and second base.
Creator:: Mann, Leslie
Date:: 1920–1925
Format:: Photographs
Location:: Springfield College Archives and Special Collections
Collection (local):: Leslie Mann Baseball Lantern Slide Collection
Subjects:: Baseball
Baseball caps
Baseball fields
St. Louis Cardinals
Pitching
Pitching--Set Position
Pegging
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Publisher:: Springfield College
Language:: English
Notes:: This lantern slide represents the correct footing position that a pitcher should follow when attempting to pick off a baserunner who is leading off of second base. The pitcher has turned so that he is directly facing second base, and from here, he would throw the baseball to the base rather than the shortstop and the shortstop would run over to second base to cover it. A right handed pitcher should turn to their left side when attempting to pick off a leading baserunner because it makes it appear that the pitcher is throwing the baseball to home plate rather than attempting to pick off the baserunner, which gives the baserunner less time to react to a possible pickoff attempt. If the pitcher executes the correct turning motion when a baserunner has taken too big a lead off the base, then the chances of successfully picking off the baserunner are maximized.
Terrible condition;
The image is covered in cracks and should be held with extreme caution.
This digital image is made from two separate digital scans; one scan of the lantern slide (reflective); one scan of the image (transparency); the two image were then combined in Photoshop to create the final image.
Lantern slide from the Leslie Mann baseball instruction course, "The Fundamentals of Baseball"
Identifier:: LANT-BSBL-181-03
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