Word: backstopping
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Before the 1877 season at Cambridge catchers tended to be gap-toothed individuals with rather leathery hands, as they caught the ball sans mitt. Understandably, the catcher stood well behind the plate near the backstop...
...pitchers in those days fired the ball underhand, standing only 45 feet from the plate. A "cross-fire" was created by the pitcher moving along a six-foot painted strip from which he made his delivery. In short, before Thayer's brainstorm the lot of the backstop was "nasty, brutish, and short...
Undoubtedly the single most thrilling moment in yesterday's 9-0 Crimson victory came when an Engineer dishman sliced the horsehide into the window of the Heinz building over the street behind the backstop. Really. And the window didn't even break...
Next time you're in Amherst, check out the Edward Lee King backstop at UMass. At Amherst HARVARD AB R H BI Kelley, 2b 3 0 0 0 Pearce, 3b 5 0 0 0 Stenhouse, rf 4 0 2 0 Bingham, 1b 4 0 2 0 Peccerillo, dh 4 0 1 0 Bowles, pr 0 0 0 0 Santos-Buch, cf 5 0 1 1 Marshall, lf 1 0 1 0 St. John, ss 3 0 0 0 Wark, c 4 0 0 0 Totals 32 1 8 1 MASSACHUSETTS AB R H BI Skribiski...
...take a look at the x-rays of starting catcher Joe Wark's right hand. The freshman backstop caught a foul tip on his throwing hand and is now out for six weeks (virtually the season) with a bad fracture. Veteran Steve Joyce will be forced to handle all the catching chores from...