Word: catcher
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Finley, the ex-catcher of the Columbia nine, has not been reserved by the New Yorks for next season...
...Rourke, the catcher of the New Yorks, will return to the Yale Law School on the conclusion of the league games...
...customary notices inviting freshmen to repair to the field to be made up into a team to play against the university will be posted September 28. It is stated on good authority that Dunn, catcher of '86, has been elected captain of the nine. On the campus all sorts of rumors concerning phenomenal pitchers and catchers, backs, half-backs and rushers coming into college with the freshmen are afloat. One senior asserts that Dunn, last year's catcher, has a little brother who is coming here this year, who can hold his pitching and who has played base-ball since...
...championship unusually exciting, yet we look forward to the result with hope and confidence. The loss of the game to Yale makes the work necessary to be done in the remaining games especially careful. For the loss of a game loses us the championship. The work of our change catcher is worthy of special mention, untrained in his pitcher's delivery, he filled the trying position in which he was placed much better than one would have reasonably expected, and the college should feel gratified that the loss of the regular catcher, although it has hurt, has not destroyed...
...ball hit Allen on the shoulder and became a dead ball anyway, and he was thrown out at first; Willard reaching second, going third on Marsh's error. Foster was called out on strikes. Henshaw made a rattling hit, but Willard remained on third in order to keep the catcher up. A passed ball sent him across the plate and Henshaw to third. All hopes were centred on Edgerly, but he struck out, after having knocked six fouls to different parts of the field. The excited Yale men rushed in upon the field and bore the nine off on their...