Word: catcher
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Spring turnout for the varsity baseball team at Princeton included Thomas E. Dewey Jr., 19 (pitcher), and the pollster's boy, George H. Gallup Jr., 21 (catcher). In Manhattan, James W. Symington, 24, son of the retired RFC head and a law student at Columbia University, picked up a contract to sing in the Carnaval Room of the Sherry-Netherland Hotel. Said Tenor Symington: "I'm paying my spring tuition with what I get here." Nicholas Eden, 20, son of Britain's Foreign Secretary, left Oxford and arrived in Ottawa to begin his new job as aide...
...third week of spring baseball practice began yesterday and with it came the announcement by Coach Stuffy McInnis that Captain Charley Walsh, a catcher, will probably see service this spring as a relief pitcher as well as a starting receiver...
...reliefer, Walsh will follow in the footsteps of Cliff Crosby, catcher on the 1950 team. Crosby became a fireman late in the season and saved several games, most noteworthy of which was one against Penn, in which he caught the first eight innings, hit a tremendous home run, and prevented a dangerous rally in relief in the ninth. McInnis plans to use Walsh as a pitcher, like Crosby, only in the late innings...
...Lawrence ("Yogi") Berra, the New York Yankees' hard-hitting (27 homers) catcher, the Baseball Writers' poll as most valuable American League player of the year. In close second place: St. Louis Pitcher Ned Carver, who won 20 games for the hapless Browns. ¶ Colonel Humberto Mariles of the Mexican Army equestrian team, five of nine jumping contests, a record individual performance, at the National Horse Show; in Manhattan's Madison Square Garden. ¶Stanford University's football team, an inside track to the Rose Bowl by upsetting the University of Southern California with three fourth-quarter...
...Brooklyn Dodger Catcher Roy Campanella, the Baseball Writers' annual poll as Most Valuable Player in the National League. In second place: Stan ("The Man") Musial of the St. Louis Cardinals, who has won the award three times before. Third: the Giants' Monte Irvin, who led the league in runs batted...