Word: catcher
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...predict which works of art will provoke what sorts of desperate acts? Mark David Chapman was clutching The Catcher in the Rye when he murdered John Lennon. Three years ago, a movie called The Program gave several teenagers the notion that it might be worth their while to lie down in the middle of a busy highway. But if you're a bored, unbalanced person in need of inspiration, Oliver Stone's 1994 film Natural Born Killers--in which Woody Harrelson and Juliette Lewis go on a murder spree and win fame for their efforts--may be a natural-born...
...question all year with this team seemed to be whether a team with nine freshman pitchers on a staff of 13 could consistently win baseball games. Would captain Marc Levy, catcher Dennis Doble and first baseman Scott Parrot--the only seniors on the roster--provide enough leadership to improve on last year's abysmal 10-25 season...
...McInerney could have spent the rest of his career rewriting Bright Lights, Big City, a well-observed comic novel that caught a generational updraft and became either The Catcher in the Rye of the '80s or the Trout Fishing in America of the '80s, depending on your estimation (I would come down somewhere in between). His subsequent books didn't stray far from the urban high life, but with his fifth novel McInerney aims to limber up and take on something more ambitious...
...Senior catcher Dennis Doble was a little more blunt than his coach...
Actually, in all fairness, the senior catcher should probably have a couple of ranks all to himself...