Word: catchers
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Beacon Base-ball Club will present a strong amateur nine next season, including Folsom as pitcher; Richardson, catcher; Sawyer, Badger and Welch on the bases; Merrill, shortstop; and Moore, Hall and Mansfield in the outfield...
...catcher will be prevented in future from making a double or triple play after a third strike, as all the batsmen has to do after three strikes have been called on him is to stand still and not run to first base, by doing which the umpire is required to decide him out, and thereby the base-runners cease to be obliged to leave the bases from being forced out by the striker's becoming a base-runner after the third strike has been called. It is left optional with a base-runner, obliged to return to a base...
...produced, to disprove the evidence that we possess. She must, at least, make an open denial of this system of umpire-play, by which referees have been systematically bulldozed. We do not believe she will deny it. Even professionals will expel from the B. B. league a catcher who deceives the umpire by snapping his fingers to imitate a foul tip. But our brothers in foot-ball concoct a more or less elaborate system, by which the referee is to be continually deceived. The only semblance of a defence that can be offered for such a method is that...
...Rowe, Brouthers, Galvin, Force and Foley have been engaged by the Buffalos. The Chicagos will only make one change, letting Quest go and replacing him by Gerhardt, if the latter be reinstated. Ewing of the Troys has had several very tempting offers, and will without doubt play as change catcher for Chicago or with the New York League team. The Clevelands have retained nearly all their present nine, including Glasscock, Dunlap, Muldoon, Bradley, Briody and McCormick. Beyond this all is guess work, other statements to the contrary notwithstanding...
...records of the season just past: The average in batting of the Harvard Nine in college games the past season was .257. Fielding average, .746. Brown had the best batting average, .295, and Princeton the best fielding, .831. The best fielders in their respective positions were: Pitcher, Harris, Amherst; Catcher, Hubbard, Yale; 1 b., Hopkins, Yale; 2 b., Parker, Dartmouth; 3 b., Harlan, Princeton; s. s., Cushman, Dartmouth; l. f., Clark, Princeton; c. f., Smith, Yale; r. f., Durfee, Brown. Wadleigh, of Princeton, led the batting of the association, with an average of .408 bases. Olmsted, of Harvard, was fourth...