Word: catcher
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Gordon Stanley ("Mickey") Cochrane, 43, sparkplug catcher of Connie Mack's great Athletics of the late '20s and Lefty Grove's battery mate. His lifetime batting average: a hefty .320. After managing Detroit for 4½ seasons (and spoiling his health and cheery disposition), he forsook baseball in 1938, is now working for a rubber company in Montana. ¶ Carl ("Meal Ticket") Hubbell, 43, the great "clutch" pitcher (he always won in a pinch). Lean and emotionless, he seldom used more stuff than he needed to get his man, seldom tried for strike-out records...
...cattle-minded Oklahoma, his bulging ranch-office trophy room, crammed with the winnings of his purebred Hereford show stock, was a sure vote-catcher. So was his snap-brimmed, cream-colored hat -the badge of the western cattleman...
...reward. Then Trib Reporter Chester Nichols was assigned to the hunt. After 22 sleepless hours he tracked Lotta down. When admiring cops asked him how he'd done it, Newshawk Nichols replied: "Simple. Until the Tribune hired me four years ago I was the dog-catcher at Evanston." The Sun's headline: SCOOP! MCCORMICK DOG OUTSMARTED BY TRIBUNE...
...every coffee table-from the politicos' favorite Tupi-Namba café on Montevideo's palm-graced Plaza Independencia to the café in the Hotel Oriental in cattle-raising Treinta y Tres-the talk was of elections. On Nov. 24, Uruguayans would vote for everything from dog-catcher to President...
...Kenary, the best passer on the team, will do the quarterbacking with Don Trimble, a dangerous runner and good pass catcher, at the left half. Al Craft will start in the right halfback slot and Howie Muffle at fullback. Muffle is the team's punter and also a good passer and runner...