Word: catchers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...competent baseball critics to finish in or below their 1934 and 1935 position of runner-up to the Detroit Tigers, the New York Yankees on July 4 were ten full games ahead of them and, to all appearances, pennant winners. The Detroit Tigers, handicapped by the illness of their catcher-manager. Mickey Cochrane. who had a nervous breakdown when his team failed to hit its stride at the season's start, were a bare percentage fraction ahead of the Washington Senators...
...only to an event of the first water; one which will be flashed to the far corners of the globe in precedence to all else of importance happening at Harvard. This afternoon a stalwart band of Crimson editors sally forth armed with bats, balls, pop bottles and one used catcher's mitt to meet a motley crew collected from the idle gang around the Lampoon Building in the year's most exciting baseball game...
...Harvard's wild cock-tail parties, Ann!. . . . Incidently the freshmen seem to have found a way of getting the wheels turning at their smoker last night: they merely stood up and threw cheese, crackers and doughnuts at each other until Jimmy Foxx appeared, minus a bat or even a catcher's mask. The great first-bagger's personality did wonders and the riot was over in less time than it takes to say Col Charles R. Apted, '06. . . . The report, current in New York, that the Germans have mined the entire line of French border fortifications, amuses us for some...
...esteemed collaborator, Thomas H. Beck, has pungently remarked, 'Ducks don't vote,' and I might add that neither do conservationists. Our scattered and desultory organizations-36,000 of them-have never, to my certain knowledge, influenced so much as the election of a dog catcher. Thirty-six thousand clubs, leagues and associations whose chief objective is wild life conservation. . . . And yet, with all this potential voting strength, the wild life conservationists altogether exert less political influence on our governments, both State and national, than the Barrel-Rollers' Union in Pumpkin Center. . . . The problem resolves itself therefore...
...Texas Christian graduate, Dutch Meyer was commercially hardheaded enough to observe upon taking over his job year ago: "I believe the fans want a club which will go places." To send his club places, he developed a boy named Sam ("Slinging Sam") Baugh. Sam Baugh throws passes like a catcher shooting a fast one to second base. In the matter of material, fortune had also smiled on Coach Madison A. ("Matty") Bell of Southern Methodist. From 1,300 undergraduates, he selected a team good enough to whitewash the University of California at Los Angeles (TIME, Nov. 18), to remain undefeated...