Word: catcher
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...post of catcher is still wide open, and Samborski is looking for a steady receiver with a good arm for the long throw to second. Clif Crosby and Webby Durant Split the catching chores in the games last week but neither of them has cinched a starting assignment...
Outstanding for the visitors, in addition to first-baseman Coulson, was catcher Clif Crosby, who banged out three hits in four official tries. HARVARD (3) ab bh po a e Gannon, lf 6 0 3 0 1 Caulfield, rf 5 0 0 0 1 Kenary, cf 6 1 4 0 0 Coulson, 1b 5 2 10 0 0 Mannino, ss 5 1 4 4 0 Sullivan, 2b 3 0 3 3 0 Huntington, 2b 1 1 0 0 0 Coppinger, 3b 5 1 1 2 1 Crosby, c 4 3 10 0 0 Durant...
...glaring sun and biting wind hampered both teams and treated a meager crowd to antics seldom seen on the baseball diamond. Infielders were unable to see balls thrown by the catcher, pitchers could scarcely see the plate, and fly balls were michievously blown out of the awaiting gloves of outfielders...
...game practice at Los Angeles' Wrigley Field, the Pirates obligingly rifled 80% of their hits squarely at Bing. Crosby, a fair country ballplayer, stopped the ones that wouldn't knock out his front teeth, clowned on the rest of them. He hit fungoes, played around with a catcher's mitt (see cut). Then Bing watched morosely while his peanut-jinxed Pirates lost to the Chicago Cubs, 4-3. A week later the Pirates took on the Cleveland Indians, and 4,200 Californians could see how Cleveland's Bob Feller earns his $87,000 a year...
Samborski has narrowed the search for catcher down to Web Durant and Clif Crosby. The two seem even at the moment, and it is almost a tossup as to who will start next Tuesday's game...