Word: catchers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...jobs you always had a title and a diplomatic uniform of sorts, I cannot give you a title but I am sending you a uniform by express." Two days later Chairman Fletcher received a large box from A. G. Spalding & Bros, from which he extracted a football headguard, a catcher's mask, a chest protector, shin guards, a metal athletic supporter...
...Francis ("Shanty") Hogan, huge, able catcher of the New York Giants baseball team, at an apartment party in Manhattan, objected to the presence of one Joseph Kink, Negro elevator operator who had been asked in for a drink. Hogan ejected Kink. Furious, Kink got a base ball bat and knife, waited until Hogan left the party, took him down in the elevator, beat and stabbed him painfully as he left the building...
...Messinger, 185-pound end, a veteran of two seasons play with the Army and the one who has been a thorn in the side of the Crimson the last two years. An excellent pass catcher who comes from nowhere to smag the complicated Army forwards...
Second Game. The Cardinals again made two bad mistakes. The day before they had systematically annoyed the Athletics' Mickey Cochrane, "greatest catcher in baseball." When he came to bat the St. Louis henchmen had flapped their hands beside their heads, chanting softly "Mule ears. Mule ears." Annoyed, Cochrane had knocked a homer. Now in the first inning they goaded him again. He made another homer...
...knew that the bleachers in St. Louis would be patched with white shirts, making it hard for the Athletics to hit a sidearm pitcher. Doubtless he would have started Wild Bill Hallahan even if the weather had been different for when Hallahan is good, he is superb, now that catcher's signals simple enough for him to understand have been worked out. At first, in spite of the blind spots made by those white shirts, it did not look like Hallahan's day. Bishop led off with...