This was originally published in 1908.
6. Until you can put the ball over the pan whenever you choose, you have not acquired the command necessary to make a first-class pitcher. Therefore, start in to acquire command.
5. Take the slumps that come your way, ride over them, and look forward.
4. Learn to be patient and cool. These traits can be cultivated.
3. A man who is not willing to work from dewy morn until weary eve should not think about becoming a pitcher.
2. Cultivate good habits: Let liquor severely alone, fight shy of cigarettes, and be moderate in indulgence of tobacco, coffee, and tea... A player should try to get along without any stimulants at all: Water, pure cool water is good enough for any man.
1. Pitchers like poets are born, not made.
Looks like Cy was quite the poet himself.
Just as sound now as when he first put quill to parchment.
Source: BaseballLibrary.com
