Word: catcher
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Died. Amos Rusie, 71, sensational "fastball" pitching star of the '90s; in Seattle. His fans claimed he merely went through the motions of pitching sometimes, and nobody but the catcher was the wiser. Pitching for the New York Giants, he struck out 345 batters in 1890, when the foul-strike rule had not yet been made; but he handed out 276 bases on balls the same season. In his first four years with the Giants he pitched 224 games, won 132 of them, moved the team from last to second place in the National League. He ruined...
...Bill Jack quit grammar school to learn the die-cutting trade, later took turns as a magician's helper, a baseball catcher, a prize fighter. Then he became business agent for Local 83, International Association of Machinists, proved his organizing knack by boosting membership from 61 to 3,600 in four years. But he liked manufacturing better than union-eering, quickly bought, developed and resold half a dozen small companies. Most successful-outside of J. & H.-was Cleveland's Pump Engineering Service Corp., which Jack swapped for 34,666 shares of Borg-Warner Corp., just before he organized...
...civilian populations abroad, no dirt in the blood plasma needled into wounded soldiers. For war use, raw air must be processed like any other crude material-laundered, filtered, electrified to remove impurities. From war experience with industrial air cleaning will come, after the war, a home-size electric dust-catcher that will cost no more to buy and run than an electric refrigerator...
...flank posts are also well manned. A first-rate pass-catcher, six-foot three-inch Lou Hill is generally an aggressive wingman, while Atkins seems to be a fighting offensive end who is more than adequate on the defense...
...Catcher...