Word: catcher
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Even though they boasted some of baseball's most gifted players, the 1968 Minnesota Twins finished a dismal seventh in the American League. Recalls Catcher John Roseboro: "This was not a happy ball club. The guys couldn't get together with each other or the front office. Someone was always grousing about himself or conditions on the team." Suddenly, it is the other American League clubs that are doing the grousing-about Minnesota. With polished thievery on the base paths to complement their power at the plate, the Twins are leading the league's Western Division...
...often kidded for not being a swinger. Girlish and gung-ho, she led a life that revolved around the Catholic Church, politics and the Kennedy family. Mary Jo, as everyone who knew her agreed last week, was the girl next door, or perhaps the tomboy, who played catcher on the office softball team. When she took her first Capitol Hill job in 1963, working for Florida's Senator George Smathers, there was a standing joke that only Mary Jo, in an office full of more chic, sleek numbers, knew how to take dictation...
...WORTH THE TRIP, by John Donovan (Harper & Row; $3.95). A few months in the life of a 13-year-old emigre from New England to New York City in the custody of a mother who is almost a stranger. Rather sophisticated, with a semihomosexual scene, and a semi-Catcher in the Rye style, the book is nevertheless remarkably touching...
Coach Loyal Park also announced that junior Jack Turco will captain next season's Crimson squad. As a sophomore, Turco was the starting catcher, but at the start of this season, Varney was the number one catcher...
Right-hander Bob Dorwart, 6-2 for the season, was one of three selections joining LaSorsa on he mound, while Turco completed the battery. First baseman Pete Bernhard was also picked, and Varney, who played both catcher and right field during the season, was named as a utilityman...