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By the end of his career, Paige could no longer blow his fastball by batters, and so he turned to guile. The Talk story describes his methods: “Sometimes he winds up fast and throws slow and sometimes he winds up slow and throws fast. Sidearm, underhand, overhand.”
Paige was smart and adapted to what his abilities granted him. Many athletes don't do this and fizzle out a year or two years prior to what they could have, if they had adjusted their game. The smart ones adjust, the dumb ones fizzle.