Word: catcher
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...more figures out of their record books, baseball's statisticians discovered that five of the best nine pitchers in the American League were lefthanders. Best of all was the Chicago White Sox's Billy Pierce, who had an earned-run average of 1.97. Yogi Berra, Yankee catcher who was Most Valuable Player for the third time, led the American League in catching errors. Yogi made 13 misplays for an average...
Honus played every position but catcher, and played them all well. In 1897, he moved up to the Louisville Colonels; later he switched to the Pittsburgh Pirates where he settled down at shortstop...
...third time in his eight-year major-league career as a Brooklyn Dodger, Catcher Roy Campanella was elected Most Valuable Player in the National League. (Campy's other awards were in 1951 and '53.) Only other three-time winner in the National League: the St. Louis Cardinals' Stan Musial (1943, '46, '48). ¶ Statisticians finally finished wading through the columns of figures they kept so carefully all during baseball season, computed the averages and named the Philadelphia Phillies' Center Fielder Richie Ashburn National League batting champion. Ashburn's average: .338. Other National League...
...other times too cute, The Matchmaker can also, as in a sudden whispered harmonizing of Tenting Tonight, turn warm and sweet. It can even be a little bashfully philosophical. Everyone connives with too much good nature and high spirits for any real claw to lurk beneath such a catcher's mitt of a play. But there are intimations, at least, that mankind is wonderfully foolish and money looms immoderately large; and that for all its caperings and disguises the play does not too wildly misrepresent the human species...
...Baseball writers began an early warm-up for next season's campaign by electing Yankee Catcher Yogi Berra the Most Valuable Player in the American League for the second year in a row and the third time in his career. Other three-time American League winners: Jimmy Foxx, of the Philadelphia Athletics and the Boston Red Sox, and the Yankees' Joe DiMaggio...