Word: catcher
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...comparison with the loose fielding displayed against Wentworth last Monday the team's fielding showed some improvement with only three errors committed, none of which proved damaging. Responsible for these miscues were Tom Ayres, the left fielder, Johnny Kilpatrick, third baseman, and Bill Hamlen, the catcher, who was hooted goodnaturedly for his misplay since he was playing against his old school...
After Rickey turned pro, he served the Reds, the St. Louis Browns and the N.Y. Americans as a not-very-good catcher. Then he got into the business end of baseball. Today he earns $50,000 plus a percentage of the club's take, the largest salary in baseball next to that of Tsar Kenesaw Mountain Landis...
...repaid through the mediation of Mr. Higgenbotham, frog & snake catcher, who happened to owe Mrs. Rawlings six dollars. One day he drove up with a trussed-up sow, asked Mrs. Rawlings if she wanted to buy a pig. "Now what I got figgered out is this. That sow there is worth six dollars. . . . I owe you six dollars. If Mr. Martin takes that sow, you've paid him and I've paid you. Now how about...
Crimson hopes for a strong baseball team received a decided lift yesterday when it was announced that Paul Delahoyde '44 last year's Freshman first-string catcher, would not be drafted, as was feared, but had joined the Marines, and had been deferred until September. Delahoyde and Captain Ned Fitzgibbons, were the standouts on the mediocre 1941 Yardling team, both of them good hitters and accurate ball-handlers...
Likewise figuring in three Brooks House Committees, Axtell who comes from Evanston, Illinois, is a catcher on the baseball team and a member of the Lowell House Committee...