Word: backstop
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...buildings to be erected, it is in the first place necessary to improve the present locker building and to build a cage for the use of the nine. It is hoped that enough money can be raised for a baseball pavilion to be placed behind the backstop, and also for small locker houses beneath the seats of the football field for the greater convenience of the players. The steel seats now on Holmes Field will be moved over during the summer to form the side seats for both fields, and money must be raised to build new steel ones...
...catchers Davis '99 and Cochrane '99 are putting up a first rate game; this is Cochrane's first attempt at catching, and with practice he promises to do well. Morse 1L. S. S. is rather the best of the Freshmen and makes an effective backstop. Burrage '98, Egbert 1900 and Skillings 1900 are fair catchers and have done good work so far. Altogether the battery candidates seem rather above the average, and there should be enough men to provide not only good 'Varsity batteries, but one for the College nine...
...unanimously against the plan. Professor Hollis then showed with the aid of a map a scheme devised by Mr. Peabody, the architect, by which the fields would be separate but the seats would be in line and those of the diamond would continue in a curve behind the backstop. The running trach would enclose the football field. This met with the approval of Captain Dean and Captain Vincent...
...whole the catchers are not as promising a lot of men as the pitchers. Morton '96, who was a substitute on the 'varsity last year, is a good backstop and a fair batter, but his throwing is poor...
Rogers '98 is a good backstop, but is rather too slight for heavy work. This is also the trouble with Pote. Pote formerly played on Somerville High and Rogers on Roxbury Latin...