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He was held back by simple and dogmatic minds of the time. the man was a great pitcher too.. total waste not using him. throwing and batting are 2 significantly different motions, plus you don't have to throw the ball more than a handful of times if you are considerate of a 2-way players needs in warm-up.
1919 he started 15gs/17 pitching appearances and ~130 total games played. they probably didn't do a whole lot of doubling up of duties. must have done some though, otherwise the math adds up to a 167 game season (*154g then?) if he did not do some batting between those GS. (132-15 + (15*4) = 167g roughly and that assumes no day off after the last GS... which could add another few days, if you wanted to)
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