Word: catcher
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...weak-hitting Bruin aggregation has averaged only five or six hits per game and has been further hurt by the loss of Jay Fielder, the oversized catcher whose big bat carried the brunt of the Brown attack for the first half of the season. But on the defensive side it is a team to be reckoned with. The infield is air-tight, and the veteran Nichols has a managed to service weak batting support to win many one-run games. In his last start, he limited Yale to a single marker while his team-mates garnered...
...exploded for four tallies in the eighth, to even things at five all. '46'er Bill Fitz's hitting and clever base-running featured the all-important rally. Borrowing a leaf from sucedster Pete Reiser's book, after singling he scurried to second on a foul out to the catcher, went to third on Fitzgibbon's infield hit, and raced home ahead of the throw-in when Gallagher hit a high pop-up to deep short-stop...
Buddy Rosar was the envy of every catcher in the big leagues. Substituting as first-string backstop for the world-champion New York Yankees while Bill Dickey nursed a bad shoulder, Rosar was behind baseball's No. 1 plate-with $5,000 of World Series swag practically in his mitt. But Buddy, a law-abiding boy, had always wanted to be a cop in Buffalo, N.Y., his hometown. Last fortnight, on the eve of a doubleheader with the Chicago White Sox, Buddy Rosar shuffled off to Buffalo, where he took examinations for the police force (and where, also...
When he rejoined his teammates three days later-all smiles and handing out cigars to celebrate the birth of a little Rosar-Catcher Rosar found that a potential policeman's lot was not a happy one. Manager McCarthy had not only fined him $250 for jumping the club but had hired rollicking Rollie Hemsley to take his place. Hemsley, recently cast off by the Cincinnati Reds for his dismal record of 13 hits in 115 times at bat this season, seemed an unlikely squat-in for Bill Dickey. But on his first day with the Yankees, catching all innings...
...Crimson's biggest threat was squelched by the nimble antics of Brown's gargantuan catcher, Fidler, who added this insult to the injury already done when he carried the game-winning tally over the plate in the third round...