The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-04-23
Marvellous Record of
 Greatest Minor Led9uer
COMPLETE RECORD OF GAMES : PITCHED, WON AND LOST BY
 THEO. BREITENSTEIN, MAIN
 STAY OF NEW ORLEANS
By WILL R. HAMILTON

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 The most remarkable case of comeback that has ever been known in the base ball work is that of Theodore Breinten- stein, who has just turned the forty second milestone in his lifes journey and Is just starting his twenty-second base ball year since his debut with the St. Louis club of the old American associa- ton.
 In a way Breinstein's record is almost as wonderful as that of Cy Young. It so far surpasses records of minor league pitchers that there is little chance for comparison. If Cy Young is the grand old man of the majors" Theodore Breiten- stein Is certainly entitled to be called grand old man of the minors" In fact that's what Breitenstein is called, but he resents it.
 Breitenstein has pitched approximately 54O games of major league and minor league baseball since 1891, winning 297, losing 249, with grand pitching per centage of .550
 He has had his off years. Tn 1896, his last year with St. Louis before going to Cincinnati, he won only r games and lost 28 The next year, with Cincinnati, he won 23 and lost 13. In 1900, his last year with Cincinnati, he just broke even in 20 games and the following year. back with St. Louis, he lost the only three games he pitched before being let out
 They thought then that the first base ball player who had brought $10000 in an outright sale had ritched his last game. He went to St. Paul and played the out field the rest of 1901, going into the box only now and then when the team got into a hole.
 Considered then veteran and has been Breltensten was brought by Charles Frank into the Southern league in 1902. Since then there has been but one year in which his pitching average fell below .500. His grand average for nine years in the Southern league is $40. From losing the only three games he pitched in 1901 Breitenstein won big majority for Menl- phis in 1902
 He continued to win big majority un- til 1907, his fourth yetar with New Or leans, when he pitched only IA games and lost nine of those. Baseball fans were sure then that Breitenstein was all in.
 That Brett" has some distance yet to go is indicated by his average of 1910 when he won 19 games and lost Gnly 9.
 Breitnenstein has been one of the first three or four pitchers in the South ern league for the last 10 years, lead ing the twirers for about half of the J0. His best year was 1905, when he won 21 and lost only 5, but that was only little better than his record the following year, when he won 21 and lost z.
 It took Brett" some time to get more figuring in the won column than i the lost when he first started with St. Louis, but that was not as much due to his pitching as to the weak |. ness of the club that backed him. The first year in which he won more than lie lost was 1894, when he pitched 49 games, winning 27 of them.
 Breitenstein has two no-hit games In the major league to his credit and one or two in the Southern. He has pitched more one and two-hit games tkan any other minor league pitcher and was still at these tricks in 1910 His last no-hit game was pitched in 1909.
 Not only has Breitenstein been the leading pitching factor on the four teams which he has served, but he has teen of great value as fielder and trtter. Though the record is not at hand, 1t Is said he was regarded a good enough hitter in the National league end American Association to warrant a berth in the outfeld. He never fails to play a few games in the outfield in the Southern league each season and always bats we'll. He batted 339 with Cincinnati in 1899.
 Breitenstein lacks Cy Young's mas eive build and he has been far more reckless in his habits than the big league G. o. M. The warm climate of the south just suits him and he is still the peppery kid who was second tnly to Arlie Latham in ability to keep the interest up in Wonder Ahes bail Sard
 Like Cy Young, Breitenstein has no 1 ca of quitting. He says he will be q sappointed if he doesn't win 20 games this season.
 The following table shows Breiten- stein's grand pitching average since 1891.