CHRISTY MATHEWSON·1901

Big Six arrives. Two hundred twenty-one strikeouts in a New York cloth that suddenly looked serious. Twenty wins against seventeen losses, thirty-six complete games, and a reputation climbing the platform with a suitcase stamped for the Polo Grounds. The smoke forms a K. The brass SIX starts whistling. Arrival is the whole gag.

221 STRIKEOUTS

In 1901 he fanned 221 batters — the smoke forms a giant K.

BIG SIX

They called him Big Six — the nickname arrives with the whistle.

NEW YORK 1901

In 1901 Matty arrived in New York — suitcase stamped for the Polo Grounds.

Christy Mathewson, New York Giants. Bain Collection / Library of Congress via Wikimedia Commons. Public domain (US).