Word: catchers
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Tate, the catcher of the Bostons, is writing a book on the art of base-stealing...
...Catcher, Hunt of Amherst...
...between the Amherst and Harvard freshmen, on Holmes Field, Saturday afternoon. Except toward the very last, the game was dull. It was marked by the wildest batting and worse base-running of the home team and the bungling work of the Amherst third baseman and left fielder. The pitcher, catcher and second baseman played the best fielding game for Amherst. For Harvard, Dean's work at second was excellent. The batting of the nine as a whole was terribly weak, seventeen men striking out and but few hits made. The best batting for Harvard was done by Corning and Mason...
...There are now eight of the original freshman nine in college, of whom six will probably be able to play this spring. Downer or MacPherson will pitch, and if Litchfield can be prevailed upon to act as backstop, he will do most of the catching. The other candidates for catcher are Bigelow and Smith. For first base the candidates are Shattuck, Magee and Downer, if the latter does not pitch. It is as yet undecided who will fill the other positions on the team. Every one who intends to try should be on the field today at two o'clock...
Captain McKean succeeded in getting out on the field about twenty candidates for the sophomore nine, yesterday afternoon. Butterworth, Fullerton and McLeod are trying for pitcher, and it is probable that McLeod will fill the position. Slade is the only candidate for catcher since Young is no longer in college. McKean will play first base, and McCoy, Faulkner, Wardner, Bates, Vilia, Rublee, Dexter, DeLong and Wheelwright are candidates for the other infield positions. Piper, Codman, Koshland, Hapgood, Barney and Sabine are trying for the out-field. After half an hour's fielding work the men practised batting. McLeod...