Word: catcher
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Died. Gordon Stanley ("Mickey") Cochrane, 59, baseball's fiery Black Irish spark-plug catcher and Lefty Grove's battery mate on Connie Mack's old Philadelphia Athletics, who was sold in 1934 for $100,000 as player-manager to the second-division Detroit Tigers and in four seasons drove the team to two American League pennants (plus two second places) and their first World Series championship, but whose playing career was abruptly ended by a beanball in 1937; after a long illness; in Lake Forest...
...Upper Arlington High School, Jack was varsity baseball catcher and a four-year letterman in basketball, averaging 18 points a game during his senior year. Scholarship offers poured in from a dozen colleges. "He was talking about how much this one or that one had offered him, how good a deal he could get," says Charlie. "I told him to stop thinking about the fun and money and think about the education." Jack's choice: home-town Ohio State University-without a scholarship...
...Golding's credentials for being asked such a monumental query-and for answering it-rest on one accomplishment: his Lord of the Flies, a grim parable that holds out precious little hope for humanity, and is the most influential novel among U.S. undergraduates since Salinger's Catcher...
...Wills needed no urging. Drawing a walk, he streaked for second on the first pitch, skidded in safely on his belly a split second before the Colt catcher's throw. Three pitches later, he stole third as well...
...game with the Mets. Four times in that single game he stole second base-though only three of the steals went into the record books. His first time on base he stole second, but the umpire nullified the play because the Dodger batter had interfered with the catcher. Wills did not argue. He simply trotted back to first and stole again two pitches later...