Word: backstops
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Three-year starter Grant Blair may be the nation's best goalie--or he may not. But there is no finer backstop in the East. With his kick saves and sprawling stops, Blair is as acrobatic in the net as any gymnast doing the floor excercises. Expect him to collect enough gold medal-winning performances this campaign to give Fusco chase for ECAC Player of the Year honors...
...three to Brock were all 94 m.p.h., all exactly 94 m.p.h.," sighs the Dodgers' Mike Brito, whose department this is, "and the one to Scioscia was just 92." He lurks behind the backstop, aiming a radar gun as purposefully as Clint Eastwood. "Straight change-ups 71, hard curves 78, soft ones 73," he mutters in review. "Ninety-mile-per-hour fast balls the whole game long, and his best stuff is waiting at the end. I'm telling you, this kid is amazing." A mustachioed Cuban in a white straw hat, Brito is the Dodger scout who discovered 17-year...
...game began at 4 p.m., the snow clumped around the base of the backstop at Soldier's Field-evidence of Sunday night's freak storm-looked disconcertingly like the lime lining the basepaths...
Seafirst's $1.5 billion backstop...
Behind the plate. Gill Raney displayed characteristic poise, gunning down two Wheaton baserunners and preventing a number of Jakovic's servings from reaching the backstop...