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Legendary athletes are honored when their number is retired with them. Just ask Dave ("Spuds") Bresnahan, the never-to-be-forgotten second-string catcher for the Williamsport (Pa.) Bills, a class AA team. His immortal feat on the diamond last year prompted 2,700 of his fans to gather at Bowman Field last week to pay him a belated tribute and to paint his number, 59, on the outfield fence...
With his hapless team 27 games out of first place and losing as usual, Bresnahan had fired an errant pick-off throw over the third baseman's head. As the runner came home, Dave triumphantly tagged him out: he had held onto the ball while tossing an Idaho potato carved to look like a baseball. Unamused, the umpire ruled that the run had scored. Dave's angry manager got him kicked off the team. Last week Bresnahan, now a real estate salesman, was vindicated. "Gehrig had to hit .340 and play in more than 2,000 consecutive games...
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...
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...