Word: catchers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Philadelphia Athletics (American League). World's champions last year, they still look on top. Mickey Cochrane is, without argument, the best catcher in either league. They have a prime staff ot pitchers, each a specialist at beating certain teams, notably Grove for New York, Waiberg for Washington. Earnshaw, star righthander, starts against anybody. Great hitters, they are not incomparable in the field but they get along...
Among the powerful hitters starting for the Freshmen, R. D. Kiernan '33, shortstop, and T. J. Valenski '33, catcher, have done consistently well with the bats. For infielders J. M. Bradley '33, formerly of Milton, is starting at first base. Bradley is having to fight for his job with S. S. Adams '33, who has been put out of the game for the present due to illness. In the field P. H. Lord '33 is covering the right side with speedy efficiency. Lord is of a baseball family, having had a brother W. W. Lord '28 on the Harvard team...
...both in the fielding and in batting departments. Among the promising men are T. G. O'Neil '30, shortstop, and P. A. Ketchum '31, third-baseman, both veterans of last year's seconds, D. W. Sprague '32, centerfielder, captain of the Freshmen last year, and J. E. Sheldon '32, catcher. For pitchers Phineas Tobe '32, and F. O. White '32, both mainstays last year, will do the bulk of the hurling for the seconds...
...treat for billiard lovers is scheduled for today at 8 o'clock in the Union when Jake Schaeffer will give an exhibition. He has held various billiard titles at different times and is the son of a one time champion. . . . Rex, second string catcher on the baseball team, broke his finger on the Southern trip in the Catholic U. game and will probably be out for about a month. . . . Ben Bassett, diminutive right fielder on the ball team, who comes from the Cape Cod region, was bragging to his mates on the trip to the South about his sailing abilities...
Tomorrow 20 members of the squad with Coach Mitchell, three managers, and a rubber, will leave by boat for Norfolk, Virginia, whence they will travel to Williamsburg to start the spring schedule on Tuesday engaging William and Mary.S. L. Batchelder '31 and Charles Devens '32, the starting catcher and pitcher, respectively, for Harvard when it opens its season today...