Word: catcher
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Yogi was beaned in Detroit, the papers reported: "Xray pictures of Berra's head showed nothing." Rival players hung by one hand from the dugout roof when he came to bat, scratching their armpits with the other. "Hey, Yog," they yelled. "You still sleeping in trees?" One opposing catcher used to watch Yogi step into the batting cage, then bellow: "Quick, men! Shut the gate! You got him." TV even got into the act with a "Yogi Bear" cartoon series about an animal that walks like...
...reach, I can hit," he boasted, and he is probably the only player who got shoe polish on his bat from golfing one over the fence. He won three Most Valuable Player awards (nobody has won more), and saw his salary climb to $55,000, highest ever for a catcher. But manager of the Yankees? That was like putting Harpo Marx in the White House, only funnier...
...trundled out to bat with his shin guards still on, showed up behind the plate without his catcher's mask. He once hit a pitcher on the chest with a throw to second base; another time he beaned the second-base umpire, and one day he caught a fly ball with his forehead. His face creased in concentration, Yogi was always the first Yankee to report for work. "I know I'm going to take the wrong subway, so I leave an hour early...
Included in the robbers' haul were 19 varsity hockey jerseys, a number of goalie pads, goalie catcher's mitts, and hockey helmets, as well as several varsity football shirts...
EAST SIDE/WEST SIDE (CBS, 10-11 p.m.). New York Mets Catcher Jesse Gonder is held up as a model to a group of problem Puerto Rican teenagers...