Word: catcher
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...superannuated: Henry Ford in celebration of his birthday took a ride for photographers on the light (12 Ib.) English bicycle on which he likes to take a three-mile spin every evening after supper; Connie Mack (Cornelius McGillicudy), manager of the Philadelphia Athletics, donned mask, chest protector and catcher's mitt to demonstrate the technique which got him a job as catcher with the Washington Senators...
While the Reds were splitting a double-header with the Boston Bees last week, 29-year-old Willard Hershberger, the Reds' second-string catcher, remained in his hotel room. When friends went to look for him they found that he had slit his throat with a razor. Alleged reason: despair over i) the Reds' loss of a double-header day before; 2 ) his own batting slump...
Last week up for sale went one Silex top ("I'll sell it for 50?; it's like brand-new"); one electric fly catcher for $12, a black & white cocker spaniel ("I'll trade it for a piano"); a $10,000 Monterey home for $7,500. Up, too, went Folger coffee sales, with a 16% increase over the entire area covered by the programs since their inception...
...League championship two years ago, Wonson issued only two bases on balls. He set down the Crimson batters in order until when two were out in the sixth, shortstop Freddy Keyes dropped a single over the head of the Indian first-sacker. Gil Whittemore, up next, fouled to the catcher for the third...
...Coming Towards You stands out like a billboard among current books of verse. It has its author's excitement to proclaim, and it proclaims it in images that crash all the gates of its reader's senses. As an eye-catcher, it rates 100; as an eye-opener, perhaps five...