Word: catcher
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...first hit off Repetto was a run-scoring drive by Tufts catcher Bob Weiss in the eighth, a blow that tied the game at 1-all. The Crimson scored again in the last of that inning...
...intentional pass failed to pay off for Tufts in the last of the eighth when the Crimson scored its winning run. Bob Hastings walked, and after catcher Weiss made a fine catch of Fisher's foul pop, Hastings went to third on Botsford's line double to left...
...that the visitors hit as well as expected. They made only six safeties. But MacLeod was generous to a fault. Though he had good stuff, he walked nine, hit three, unleashed a wild pitch, and fumbled a bunt. His catcher, Bill Formosi, got into the spirit by committing three passed balls. The rest of the infield was poor, too, making five errors...
Bing Crosby will open the season as catcher on the strength of his home-run hitting splurge on the nine's spring trip. John Simourian will start at first, Bobby Clearly at second, Stu Levine at third, and Bob Hastings at short. Dick Fisher, Walt Stahura, and Matt Botsford will compose a hard-hitting outfield...
...Catcher Pearson dies, but by that time Narrator Wiggen and Author Harris have made their point: scratch a ballplayer and you find a human being, a taxpayer, a batter in the game of life whose exhilaration at pitching a shutout or swatting a homer with the bases full is apt to be balanced at any time by an ignominious strikeout or a sad walk to the showers. As the theme of a novel, this carries its own banality if only because no decent reader would want to quarrel with it. What makes Bang the Drum Slowly unique in current fiction...