Word: catchers
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...flying out to Mumford; Codman flied out; Slade struck out; Campbell hit safely; Linn got his base on balls; Campbell scored on a fumble by short-stop of Mumford's hit; Linn scored on a passed ball, and Mumford was left on third by Vila fouling out to catcher...
...both were left on bases. Spencer being thrown out at first by McLeod; Slade made a hit, stole second and third, but was out on an attempt to get home; Campbell flied out to Howard; Linn reached first on Slade's out, stole second; Mumford struck out, but catcher missed third strike, threw wild to first, sending Linn home and Mumford to second; Vila was thrown out at first by pitcher...
...almost nothing, can be said in apology of it. As was the case in our first championship game, wretched base running and one or two costly errors lost us the game. The fault lay not so much with the coachers as with the base runners. True, the visitors' catcher was a hard man on whom to steal bases, but a number of our runners were very slow, and could not have handled them-selves much more awkwardly than they did, had they tried. The Harvard team, in direct contrast to our own, were adepts in the art, and ran bases...
...York papers are authority for the statement that Campbell, the Harvard catcher, is a professional...
...field. The visiting team presented a set of men whose playing perhaps equalled, but did not excel that of youths of ten summers. There was no redeeming feature to their play but the work of the pitcher, who was debarred from swift pitching by the lack of a catcher. 90's change battery, Kielty and Vaughn, was put in. Kielty is a promising pitcher, but is a trifle wild. The battery, on the whole, did good work. The batting of '90 was strong, Codman alone making three hits out out of four times at bat. The score...