Word: catcher
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...keynote of Joseph Guttoveggio's career has been a plodding thoroughness. When, as a child, he became catcher of the 17th Street baseball team, he got McGraw's book on baseball from the library and boned up for weeks on curves and knuckle balls. His formal education ended with his second year in high school, but he began haunting the New York Public Library. A book on hypnotism made him a successful practitioner on friends and neighbors. He ploughed through such subjects as cryptography, graphology, occultism, oriental philosophy, esthetics, acoustics. A book on dietetics converted him temporarily into...
...Wilson, dean of girl-softball umpires, maintains that the female Lippy Durochers, with their special brand of umpire-baiting, draw larger crowds than Softball's Di Maggios. No one knows how many casual customers became confirmed the day Umpire Wilson was thus bawled out by an exasperated lady catcher: "Listen, big boy, if you'd take your lamps off the batter's knees long enough to look around, maybe you'd see more of these pitches coming over as strikes...
Spring. Eleven-year-old Richard Miller of Pittsburgh ran away from home to see some ball games, turned up in Manhattan prepared to watch the Dodgers; ready for any emergency, he carried a bat, two baseballs, two catcher's mitts, two fielder's gloves. Billy Sykes and Harriet Wilkinson, both ten and barefoot, were taken into custody 60 miles from their Los Angeles homes by a deputy sheriff, who thus foiled their third attempted elopement...
...Naval Training Station. Last year the Sailors had only one great big-leaguer, Chief Boatswain's Mate Bob Feller (now at sea). This year, besides Rizzuto, McCoy, Dom Di Maggio and Padgett, the line-up includes two up-&-coming youngsters: First Baseman Eddie Robinson, onetime Baltimore Oriole, and Catcher Vince Smith, a fledgling Pirate who handled Feller's pitching last year. To replace Feller, the Sailors have Tom Earley (Braves), Walter Masterson (Senators) and Fred Hutchinson (Tigers...
Another softball battle is scheduled for the next day on which it doesn't rain. This time the WAVES meet the league-winning Class D team of the NSCS. To insure keen competition the men have offered their opponents a male pitcher and catcher, a seven-run advantage, and a wager; the winners are to be entertained at the losers' mess-hall. We have accepted the challenge and the terms and are all set to prove they were much too lenient...