Word: catcher
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...trip will give him his first good line on battery strength, and his pitchers and catchers are the big questions on this year's team. Of his hurlers, only Dom Repetto has had much past experience, and the other moundsmen wil have to come through if the team's veteran strength elsewhere is to bring a successful season. A replacement must also be found for last year's catcher, Bing Crosby...
...Hastings will go at shortstop, with Tom Bergantino at third. John Getch and Matt Botsford will play two of the outfield positions, and either Dick Fisher or Walt Stahura the other. Repetto will probably pitch, with Phil Haughey the catcher...
...coronary attack in spring training, Giant Catcher Bill Sarni, 29, was ordered by his doctors never again to play baseball, later was signed on as a coach for the coming season so that he might qualify for a limited pension...
Acknowledging that he was the pleased catcher of the bride's bouquet, Chicago Grass Widower Adlai Stevenson, 56, a guest at the recent marriage of his distant cousin Helen Stevenson to New Jersey's Democratic Governor Robert B. Meyner (TIME, Jan. 28), seemed bleakly bereft of romance, though confessing that he would like to rate as eligible: "I hope the bouquet portends something, but I'm inured to disappointments...
...Wearing the pin-stripe flannels of the New York Yankees will be a profitable pastime next season for Lawrence ("Yogi") Berra and Edward ("Whitey") Ford. In return for last summer's superlative performance (30 regular-season home runs and three in the World Series), Catcher Berra, a ten-year veteran, got a $58,000 contract. No catcher has ever equaled Yogi's pay. Pitcher Ford, who just missed out on a 20-game season (19-6), has an 80-28 record for five years with the Yanks and a 4-2 record in World Series play. All this...