Word: catcher
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...flunkies spring hurler "Wild Thing" Vaughn (Charlie Sheen) from the slammer, take a veteran catcher (Tom Berenger) out of exile from the Mexican Leagues and find a voo-doo-worshipping Caribbean slugger (Dennis Haysbert), who can slam fast balls into left field but fans at any curve ball...
Designated hitter Tim Hurley singled to left to lead off the eighth. Catcher Jay Jakimcyzk then smacked a single down the third base line, the first time in the game the Crimson got back-to-back hits with less than two outs...
...Catcher Tim Day then blasted a homerun to left field, and the Engineers mounted a 3-0 lead. After the first, however, Ubert found his game and shut down MIT, retiring 12 straight batters...
...senior catcher also noted that the first game may turn out to be a blessing in disguise for the Crimson...
...think that I shall ne'er remark/ A cornfield green as Fenway Park." It comes in the concrete poetry of a Bill James statistical analysis, or in the sprung rhythm of a Roger Angell paragraph. Or in the flight of a ball from the pitcher's hand toward the catcher's glove, with a million delicious options at stake...