Word: catcher
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Gain. In Effingham, Ill., Mayor Paul Taylor (salary: $800 a year) advised future office seekers to "start at the top and run for dog catcher" (1958 earnings...
...other featured speaker at the affair was William T. Reid, Jr. '01, one of the College's most successful baseball coaches. A well-known catcher in his day, he offered advice to the varsity, junior varsity, and freshman baseball players attending the affair...
...weeks ago, Sports Illustrated picked up Fuller's classroom discussions on the subject of subterfuge in sports. Fuller defended the baseball catcher's "ethically acceptable" act of pulling a pitch into the strike zone, but condemned the practice of feigning injuries in football contests...
...trace of unbelief on all that has happened. "I used the problem more seriously than the articles indicate," he says. Fuller was explaining the use of what he calls the "If one can do it, all can do it" test for certain actions, applying it first to the catcher's tactics and then to the stratagem of fake injuries...
Fuller likened the act of making close pitches look like strikes to a lawyer's advocacy--the catcher is simply "presenting a persuasive argument." But, he contended, a football player pretending to be hurt is committing a moral wrong, and engaging in "true deception...