Word: catcher
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...indeed, Felton could, as he squared around on Brown's first pitch--an outside fastball--and plunked it cleanly down the third base line. With the ball halfway down the line and angling toward the chalk, catcher Joyce wisely yelled to let it roll. The pill scooted straight along the line for perhaps a second--Pearce and Brown hovering over it quizzically, like consulting surgeons, Felton already safe at first--before mysteriously hooking back into fair territory. Pearce snapped the ball up in his palm with disgust...
UMass got its first tally in the second. A one-out single by John Gallagher was the first hit of the ball game. Catcher Charlie Ciccone followed with a solid double down the right field line that Peter Bannish handled well, but his throw sailed over the first cutoff man's head and bounced in front of Bingham...
Cincinnati has this: the best catcher ever to play the game, the best active pitcher, a second baseman and a left-fielder who have dominated the last three years' MVP sweepstakes, and a cast of stars that could rival the credits for Airport...
...Karl Wallenda did a handstand on Weitzman's shoulders. So Karl Wallenda became a high-wire stunt man. Probably it was in his blood all along. His father was a catcher in a wandering troupe of aerialists; his mother performed with the troupe too. But when Wallenda first began performing his own high-wire act, he soon showed the daring that was to make him the greatest of his strange breed. He not only walked the wire but rode a bicycle on it- with his brother Herman on his shoulders. He invented an act that had never before been...
...light left Yankee newcomers somewhat bewildered. Remarked Backup First Baseman Jim Spencer: "Every day I keep looking around for someone to take a swing at someone else, and I haven't seen it. Considering what I read in the paper last year, I'm surprised." Reserve Catcher Fran Healy, last season's peacemaker, laughs off such wretched expectations: "There's not as much shooting here as in a Clint Eastwood movie, but we do our best...