Word: catcher
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...that a collegian, after several seasons' work in the diamond field, is graduated just when he becomes an accomplished player of the national game. The Princeton College Club will lose four of its most valuable players next season. They are Larkin, the first baseman; Ernst, the pitcher; Schenck, the catcher, and Rafferty, the second baseman. About a dozen collegians have sent in applications for membership in the nine to fill the four vacancies. It is thought that Princeton will have a good team in the field next season, as some of the applicants are good general players. Besides this...
...days and base-ball. Freddie (who has never seen a catcher's mask before.) "Papa, would they take that man to the pound if he wasn't muzzled...
...Chamberlain, Churchill, DeWolf, Collins, Cook, Edgerly, Faulkner, Fish, Ferry, Gardner, Garrison, Kimball, Magill, Nichols, Rankin, Smith, Taylor. In addition to these are Messrs. Allen and Phillips who are trying for the university. Of the above mentioned, three are trying for the position of pitcher and two for that of catcher...
...stated that the New York Club has secured "a prominent college catcher" from central New York to play on their nine the coming spring...
...game of base-ball, as at present played, is becoming too scientific to retain its popularity long among college sports. Interest is confined almost entirely to the pitcher and catcher. The first question that is always asked of any nine is, "What sort of a pitcher has it got?" If the pitcher is good and is supported by a catcher who can hold his delivery, the batting and fielding qualifications of the rest of the nine become minor points of consideration, while if the pitcher is poor no excellence on the part of other players can remedy the defect...