Word: catcher
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Crimson mentor still intends to stick with a picket line of Akillian, Bob Smith, and Ralph Robinson. The only other outfielders on the squad at this time are Dick Scheer and Dick Clasby, the second string catcher...
...third, second baseman Frank Nahigian walked and stole second. He scored when centerfielder Bill Chauncey singled to left, and Teachers' catcher Howlett dropped the ball for an error...
...Crimson completed its scoring in the bottom of the seventh when Nahigian walked. Centerfielder Ted Cooney forced him at second. Cooney went to second on catcher George MacDonald's single, and completed the Yardling's scoring when the visiting second baseman bobbled Chauncey's grounder...
...Scratch Catcher. General Motors Corp. showed off an electric instrument which can detect scratches as small as one millionth of an inch. The "Surfagage" can be used in machine shops and factories to record the surface roughness of an automotive piston, crankshaft, gear tooth or any other part with a machined, ground, honed or lapped surface...
...best shortstop in baseball [Phil Rizzuto, Most Valuable Player in the American League in 1950] ... I got the best catcher [Yogi Berra, 1951 M.V.P.], and I got two others to back him up [Ralph Houk and Charlie Silvera]. If he [Berra] wasn't such a good hitter, I'd play the others more. They can catch as good...