Word: catcher
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Finally, the exasperated pitcher managed to get through his motion. As the ball whipped toward the plate, the batter's cool blue eyes examined it with icy intentness. The ball, a hairbreadth outside the strike zone, plopped into the catcher's glove. Not until the umpire called "ball," almost resignedly, did Eddie ("The Brat") Stanky allow himself the small grimace that, during a game, passes for a satisfied grin...
...German-Russian parents. His father, a leather glazer, was a frustrated semi-pro ballplayer. By the time Eddie could sit up, he was rolling a baseball on the floor. His mother recalls a pickup game on a nearby sandlot, when Eddie was still only a shaver. He was the catcher, and, overeager as usual, he crowded so close to the plate that he was knocked cold when the batter swung. Mother Stanky, an unperturbed spectator, said: "Just throw a bucket of water on him. He'll be all right." Eddie got up and finished the game...
Teaming with Rookie Shortstop Alvin Dark in Boston, Stanky was well on his way to his best major-league season (batting average: .320) when he broke his leg sliding into third and spiking Dodger Catcher Bruce Edwards. By the end of the season, with Stanky intact again, Boston won its first pennant in 34 years. Meanwhile, in the switch that baffled baseball, Durocher left Brooklyn to manage the Giants. In his first important trade to build "my kind of team," Durocher got Stanky and Dark from Boston. Old feuds were forgotten. Baseball's two "holler guys" were together again...
Star batsmen are Davis and Ongley. Captain Seaga has the job of wicket keeper, and operates much the same as a baseball catcher. The "bowlers"--cricket's equivalent of the pitcher--are headed by Mugaseth, Barry Cooke and Win Rickards, while Clark is a leading "fielder" (or baseman...
...freshman baseball team will be without the services of Captain George MacDonald when it plays Brown today at 3p.m. in Providence. The stocky catcher, who was shaken up in Wednesday's practice, will probably also miss tomorrow's--game against Tufts at 3:45 on Soldiers Field...