Word: catcher
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...spite of the cold weather, Springfield managed to fill the small grandstand with an enthusiastic crowd, which included a small but vocal group of hecklers. When Crimson catcher Dick Diehl dropped a pitch, the fat little Springfield bat boy yelled, "Hey, frog, you slimy, slidey, goofy thing...
Dick Diehl is scheduled to make his first appearance of the season behind the plate, and Shepard will be watching hopefully Last year Diehl was the club's top catcher, but was hampered with a sore...
Dick Diehl, the regular catcher, has been sidelined and his place will be filled by sophomore Scott Harshbarger. Harshbarger can also play first and outfield when needed...
...Clarine ("Polly"), whom he still describes as "the best handshaker a man ever married." Mills won easily, and by 1952 had become such a personage that Kensett's citizens proudly put up a sign at the town limits: "Home of Congressman Wilbur Mills and Bill Dickey, Famous Yankee Catcher." Today, at 52, the chunky (5 ft. 8 in., 180 Ibs.) Mills is batting 1,000 around his home town...
Many an educator seconds Hero Holden Caulfield of The Catcher in the Rye, whose wry view of "Pencey Prep" echoes the language repeatedly used in advertising military academies. For military schools are widely scorned as something akin to reform schools with tuition-handy places for the rich or the divorced to dump incorrigible offspring. "Military schools are a symbol of the abdication of parental responsibility," scoffs one non-military headmaster...