Word: captains
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...NOTEBOOK: Football captain Steve Potysman came up with the best line of the year by a spectator yesterday, when Crusader basketball star and shortstop Ronnie Perry bobbled a grounder for a fifth inning error. "Somebody should tell him he doesn't have to dribble it first." Poty said. at Soldiers Field HOLY CROSS AB R H BI Colombo 2b 5 0 2 3 Verrette 1f 3 1 0 0 Perry ss 4 2 2 0 Solomon 3b 4 0 2 1 Holiver dh 5 0 1 1 Daigneault dh 1 0 0 0 Allen c 4 0 0 0 Johnson...
...fundamentally unchanged in design and spirit since its genesis in the middle of the 19th century. The invention of the game is attributed in folklore to Abner Doubleday. Besides founding the national sport, Gen. Doubleday--after graduating from West Point--was present at Fort Sumter, where as an artillery captain he sighted the first cannon fired by the Union in the Civil...
...thing, though, that has changed dramatically since those early days is the tools of the trade. One of the most importan breakthroughs in the game was the invention of the catcher's mask by none other than the captain of the 1877 Harvard team, F.W. Thayer. The catcher's mask has remained Harvard's legacy to the great American pastime for 102 years...
...first Harvard catchers was Horatio Stevens White, the team captain from 1871-73. White became a professor of German at Harvard and eventually athletic director. In a retrospective that appeared in the Crimson in 1927, he noted that in the absence of a mask he "was accustomed to bite upon a large rubber eraser, to prevent dental demolition, with a surreptitious supplementary duplicate to lend to envious and suppliant professional backstops. But this was the principle concession made for defensive armor...
Harvard's baseball fortunes slipped until the arrival of Thayer, who was elected captain for the 1876 season while still a sophomore. In 1877, Thayer hit upon the idea of the mask for the team's catcher, James A. Tyng...