Word: catcher
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...singled to center off Duffell with men on first and second, but Ralph promptly fired the ball home and forced the runner coming onto third to hold there. The Crimson failed to cut off the incoming throw as the runner receded to third, and it short-hopped past sophomore catcher Jason Keck and Duffel and went all the way to the backstop...
Things began to get interesting in the top of 10th, when the Crusaders started the inning with a courtesy runner, Jen Ruggiero, at second base. A sacrifice bunt moved her over to third and a wild pitch over the head of junior catcher Kara Hartl brought her home for the game's first...
Harvard padded its lead in the sixth. After a leadoff walk by sophomore Peter Woodfork and a single by sophomore catcher Jason Keck (2-for-4, 2 runs), Kessler had an RBI single and stole second...
...America needs baseball. In an age when attention deficit disorder reigns supreme and the images on our television screens race by our brains in fractions of a second, baseball teaches patience. The fielders' changing positions, the batter's fixed stare and the catcher's mysterious signs all mold attention to detail. Baseball can be the antidote to our frenetic and fast-paced culture. If baseball will build us a new home, we will most surely come...
...Summits [a mountaineering book by Dick Bass and the late Disney president Frank Wells] and a Wallace Stegner novel." He's also a fan of Philip Roth's, John Irving's, Ernest J. Gaines' and David Halberstam's, but his all-time favorite novels are the schoolboy standards The Catcher in the Rye, The Great Gatsby and A Separate Peace. A nearby room will be filled by an enormous trampoline; at the office he sometimes surprises colleagues by joyfully leaping to touch the ceiling, and he finds bouncing on a trampoline as conducive to concentration as rocking...