The ep10 Grannys All-Time Pitching Selection

It's time for yours truly, Jimmy Powers with another Grantland Rice story. There, this is Jimmy Powers transcribed to date the life of Granny Rice as depicted in his life story, the Tumal on the Shouting, has taken us behind the scenes with the greats

and near-grates of sport, not only from the present day, but also from the historical past. Right from his start with the Nashville news in 1991, after graduating from Vanderbilt University, He sure knew him. He collected the immortals from the world of sports as an antique dealer collects priceless curios. Today we're going to meet Granny's all-time pitching selection.

So with a salute to the every young spirit of Grantlin Rice, we open the tumult and the shouting and in first person begin today's story. In over 50 years of wandering about, I have run across four master pitchers. Pictures you might label super great. I have seen at least four other great ones. These four masters happen

to be ancients, while three of the next four are what you might call moderns. Believe me, however, I have no special tie with the past that makes me see everything that's old as necessarily better than what's come since. If I didn't look ahead to greater deeds in this speeded up age, I believe I would have withered away long ago. Incidentally, my own

One personal baseball hero was a fellow who never made the grade in the big leagues. I played baseball with him at Vanderbilt back in 1900. His name was Joe Cheryl, a 155-pound gangly sort who must have stood six feet too.

I was a freshman and substitute shortstop. Cheryl a senior was our number one pitcher, a right-hander. For a collegiate, he had the poise, guts, and speed of a champion. When Cheryl graduated, he went straight to the Southern League. In his first assignment, he struck out seventeen men and seven innings. Then his arm went lame. He never pitched again.