Word: catcher
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Yale freshman nine has four candidates for the position of pitcher, two for catcher, two for each of the bases, and three for short-stop...
...Princetonian thus describes a nightmare of our faculty who are supposed to witness a Yale-Princeton baseball game a hundred years hence. The players take their places and the game is called. "The ball whirls through the air with velocity, the catcher motions one of his assistants to the right, who is just in time to take in an out-curve of ten feet. "How is that?" cries the pitcher. "One ball!" yells the umpire, stationed on a small tower at a little distance. And armed with an immense telescope. "What?" says the pitcher, and he pulls out a revolver...
Souther, the Yale catcher, says the nine will be as good as that of last season...
...this city sagely says that probably no Harvard student ever thought seriously of becoming a professional baseball player or oarsmen. That may be true to a certain extent, but some Harvard men, nevertheless, have accepted money for their services as ball-players or boating men. Tyng, the famous catcher of Harvard, several years ago played a number of games with the Bostons, and Mr. Bancroft, the ex-captain of the Cambridge crew, a young lawyer at the "Hub." receives pay for coaching every spring the wearers of the crimson at New London, in the annual race with Yale. Some other...
...been nothing of news to write. However this week has seen the first move, and I give below all that has taken place and our outlook for a nine next year. All the men of last year's nine are here except Greene. Gunderson will be pitcher, Bassett catcher, Durfee 3d and Wadsworth short-stop, Seagraves center, with 1st and 2d bases and right and left fields unfilled. Murphy will be change pitcher. There are ten men under the captain's training now in one of the city private gymnasiums (we have no gymnasium at college) and three or four...