Word: catcher
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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After a fast first inning, action began in earnest in the second. Huskie pitcher Bob Mullin fanned, but then Yarbro issued a free pass to Don Darracq. Catcher Sid Natanson followed Mullin's example and earned a third strike by jumping at a Yarbro curve...
...walked, and then Jerry Varnum hit a towering foul ball almost directly above the plate. Yarbro came off the mound and looked at it. Phil Bernstein started in from first and decided against it, as he had to hold the runner. Mike Drummey at third made the same decision. Catcher Dick Dehl circled under the ball determinedly. The ball, however, dropped foul in front of him, dribbled fair, and then rolled foul, where Diehl pounced...
Died. Frank Andrew Burrell, 95, oldest former major league baseball player in the U.S., a catcher who first used the snap throw from a home-plate crouch; of cancer; in Weymouth, Mass...
Cleveland's hitting so far has been insistently good, if never outstanding. The Indians are third in team batting, in runs and home-runs are well behind the leaders. All-star catcher John went eight for 16 in the weekender series against New York and boosted at average to .326, but most of Cleveland's top hitters are hovering around to 290 mark...
Belinsky may well turn out like Bobo Holloman, the only other rookie to pitch a no-hitter, who lasted less than a full season with the St. Louis Browns in 1953. Even if Bo winds up beaning Roger Maris or hurling every other pitch over his catcher's head, though, he will have at least injected some life into the stiffening corpse of the American League...