Word: catcher
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...stumbled again as Jimmy Key pitched a two-hitter and the Blue Jays parlayed catcher Rich Gedman's error into an unearned run in the eighth inning and a three-game sweep. Bruce Hurst lost despite a five-hitter...
Dreams of winning the International Leaguechampionship dissolved early in the summer. Duringthe rest of the season, each Richmond Brave foughtto put "some personal numbers on the board," asthe catcher, John Mizerock, explained to me aftera game...
...nearly as successful in studies as in sports. When I asked him what books had shaped his life, he answered Hynes' Flights of Passage -- a rather late entry. Asked for earlier influences, he said, "Well, we had a lot of obligatory reading when I was young -- Moby Dick, Catcher in the Rye, Gentleman's Agreement. They shaped my ((life)), in various ways. How? I had to go back and give a book review on each of those when I was 17." Actually, two of those three books were written after he was 17, but the reviews he remembers were written...
...might be possible to sympathize with Adam and the things that disturb him if he were about 15 years younger. The Boys and Their Baby might turn into a sort of 1980s Catcher In The Rye. But Adam is 30 years old, a college graduate, yet he seems completely incapable of making decisions on his own. So what does Adam do? Like a typical child who can't handle his problems, Adam just picks up and leaves Boston, fleeing to San Francisco where he moves in with his college roomate with whom he hasn't spoken in over a decade...
...reference to Shakespeare. Baseball's funny men loved their game, but, thank God, they knew it was a game and they didn't take it too seriously. Can you imagine Yogi saying, as the No Lights fanatics do, "It's a bastardization of a baseball tradition." The great Yankee catcher, king of the malaprop, would be more likely to wonder how it happened that the sun could still be shining at 9 p.m. in Wrigley...