Word: catcher
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...This book has done more for education and understanding of teachers than any other book," exclaims Jean Thomas, curriculum supervisor in the San Francisco public schools. "As a portrait of teen-age society, it is a classic on the order of Salinger's Catcher in the Rye," says Los Angeles Teacher Olga Richards. "I'm not familiar with the book," huffs H. M. Landrum, superintendent of Houston's Spring Branch School District...
...player, Branch Rickey's contribution to baseball is best forgotten. A no-hit, no-field catcher, he bounced briefly around the majors reaching a sort of apex with the New York Highlanders in 1907, when he batted .182 and permitted the Washington Senators to steal 13 bases in one game. That was enough to convince Rickey that his talents were better suited to the front office. Over the next 50-odd years, with the St. Louis Browns, the St. Louis Cardinals, the Brooklyn Dodgers and the Pittsburgh Pirates, he established himself as "the Mahatma," "the Brain," the brightest innovator...
...Likes Baseball? To his teammates, even to his few close friends Koufax's aloofness is often downright annoying. "Imagine," says Dodger Catcher John Roseboro, "being goodlooking, well-off, single-and still so cool. I know guys who would be raising all kinds of hell on those stakes." Dodger Vice President Fresco Thompson considers him a heretic. "I don't think he likes baseball," mutters Thompson. "What kind of a line is he drawing anyway-between himself and the world, between himself and the team...
...came Bob Allison, a dangerous hitter. "He was the tying run," Koufax said later, "so no pitch I threw him got any more than an inch of the plate." The count went to two and two. Rearing back, Koufax threw. Allison swung. Pop! The ball slammed into Catcher Roseboro's mitt. In the locker room, world champions for the third time in seven years, richer by $10,000 per man, the Dodgers showered in champagne and gawked like schoolboys at Sandy Koufax, standing off to one side talking to reporters. "That Koufax," sighed Pitcher Johnny Podres, once a World...
...Uppercut! Uppercut!" cried Catcher John Roseboro...