Word: backstop
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John Davis has been catching and batting eighth. "He's a fine backstop, and when he fires down to second, the pitcher has to hit the dirt" remarked Samborski...
...Manhattan, Yankee Yogi Berra broke a long-standing habit of holding out until late spring before accepting his season's contract. Offered an estimated $45,000, Yogi grabbed for a pen like a catcher going for a squeeze bunt, signed and became the best-paid backstop in baseball...
...backstop the first team, whose toughest job will be to block the expected drive for Chinese Communist membership in the U.N., the President also named five alternates, including re-appointments for James J. Wadsworth, brother-in-law of Missouri's Senator Stuart Symington, and Mrs. Oswald Lord, 1952 co-chairman of the Citizens for Eisenhower. The three new alternates: Wright Francis Morrow, 61, wealthy Houston lawyer who backed the Texas Democrats for Eisenhower; Ade M. Johnson, 58, director of labor and industry in the state of Washington; Roger Williams Straus, 62, a New York industrialist (American Smelting & Refining...
...little more wood on the ball." Whatever the explanation, Campanella's hitting is a profound source of pleasure to Brooklyn Manager Charley Dressen. who has been shuffling his players frantically to get more power into his lineup. But Dressen is even more pleased, if possible, with Campanella the backstop than with Campanella the batter. "He's really a great catcher," says Dressen. happily ticking off Campy's virtues. "The pitchers like to pitch to him. Not many balls get by him. He picks men off bases, and that builds up the pitcher's confidence...
McInnis is undecided about his starting battery. Either John Arnold or Bob Ward will start on the mound, and sophomore George McDonald may take over catching chores for regular backstop Dick Clasby...