Word: bresnahan
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Pure Velocity. Few athletes have the protean talent to do that, which is why there have been only a handful of authentic superstar catchers in the chronicle of baseball. Roger Bresnahan, who teamed with Christy Mathewson on the old New York Giants, was probably the earliest, and Bill Dickey of the 1930s New York Yankees was possibly the greatest. Others in the pantheon are Gabby Hartnett, Detroit's Mickey Cochrane, and an earlier Redleg, Ernie Lombardi, whose style and skills closely parallel Bench's own. It may well be that Josh Gibson of the Homestead Grays...
Spokesmen for the Young Socialist Alliance (YSA) charged yesterday that four SDS members assaulted, knocked down and kicked Robert Bresnahan-former Boston coordinator for the New Mobilization Committee-at a conference of the New England YSA in Burr Hall yesterday afternoon...
John Barzman, one of the spokesmen, said that seven members of SDS and the Progressive Labor Party were involved in a premeditated assault upon Bresnahan. He claimed that four persons attacked Bresnahan as he climbed the staircase from the basement in Burr Hall, while three others sealed off the top of the stairs...
...alleged assault on Bresnahan occurred a little after 1:30 p. m., when many participants in the YSA-sponsored New England Socialist Education Conference had left Burr Hall for lunch. One SDS member who was in Burr during the incident denied last night that fight was premeditated. Bresnahan was treated yesterday afternoon for facial lacerations...
...will stay out on the streets until the war is ended and until every U. S. soldier, plane, and gun is out of Vietnam." said Bresnahan after the meeting, "Massive actions will end the war in Vietnam as the level of militancy grows, but you can't build a mass action around a multi-issue movement," he added...