Word: catcher
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Here Saturday on the Freshman diamond, there was only one major miscalculation in an otherwise tight ball game. With two down in the seventh, an Ell runner in an second, and the Crimson ahead 3 to 2, a conference between pitcher Johnny Hansen, Coach Moe Berg, and catcher Frank Crosby decided that it was the better part of something to walk second baseman Tippet for a crack at Nadherny. The Bull tagged the first pitch to deep right-center for a line triple and the ball game. According to Crosby, Tippet was a great hitter at Andover...
Coach Eddie Jeremiah's team has won only three games in 12 this year, but the Indian lineup is flavored with at least two .300 hitters in catcher Art Young and shortstop John Callagy. The Dartmouth starting pitcher will be either Jim Doole or Bob Amirault...
...Terriers' winning run came after Reilly walked Charley Espanet, the first batter to face him in the tenth. Dick Mills sacrificed Espanet to second, and Bill Gibson, a heady catcher, drove in the crucial score with a single to left...
...best defensive maneuver of the day cost Harvard a possible trying run in the tenth. Jack Wallace opened the inning with a pinch-hit single to right, and with Jack Forte at the plate in an obvious sacrifice situation, Bill Gibson, Terrier catcher, called for a pitchout and picked Wallace off first with a fine throw to second-baseman Falloni...
Last season Boston College won 17 games of 19 played, and several members of the 1946 nine were unable to retain their starting positions this year. Among Maguire's crop of promising Freshmen are rightfielder Frank O'Sullivan and catcher John Fitzgibbons, both of whom handle themselves with considerable aplomb...