"Keeping Phyically Fit" - article on Walter Johnson's Pitch by C. Ward Crampton, May 1936
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A "Keeping Physically Fit" article appearing in the May, 1936 Boy's Life Magazine written by C. Ward Crampton about pitching form and conditioning. After a short introductory narrative about fishing with "Hickory" Dan, the camp athletic coach, the column describes training and conditioning for baseball pitchers, with a section each for the shoulder, trunk, and wrist. The headline, "Seeee!!! The Pitcher Pitch!", has on either side stick figures (presumably drawn by Crampton) mid-pitch. The column is part of Charles Ward Crampton's "Keeping Physically Fit" series. The center image shows Walter Johnson, mid-pitch, in a Yankees uniform and facing the camera. The second page has an advertisement for how to receive Crampton's special instruction sheets on baseball. Toward the end of the second column is a small stick figure performing the wrist-exercise "The Little Snakechaser." Beneath the text are three stick figures demonstrating stretches. This column is from the Vol. 26, No. 5 issue of Boys' Life (May 1936). For a biography of C. Ward Crampton, see: https://springfield.as.atlas-sys.com/agents/people/551 Boys' Life magazine, founded by George S. Barton of Somerville, Massachusetts in 1911, still circulates today. In 1912, the Boy Scouts of America purchased the magazine for $6,000 (one dollar per subscriber). Boys' Life was marketed toward older boys, providing purchasing guides for cars, MP3 players, digital cameras, sunglasses, and more. Along with a regular fitness section added in 2005, they feature video game reviews, technology, book reviews, adventure stories, environmental issues, sports, history, and comics. Both pages have indentations from two paperclips along the top edge, two paper clips along the bottom edge, and one paper clip along the left edge. There is a crease across the center of both from having been folded
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