Word: catchers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...brought base hits, once followed a woman for three miles after noticing that a large bone pin in her hair was loose. When it finally fell, Powell scooped it up, rushed to the park and -confidence restored-tripled his first time up. Al Lopez, who was a National League catcher in the '30s and '40s, once ate kippered herring for breakfast 18 days in a row trying to preserve a batting streak that lasted 17 days...
...seedy ballpark in Pittsfield, Mass., where a minor league team plays to empty stands; to a sun-hammered field in Puerto Rico where children try to emulate the feats of the late Roberto Clemente; to Cincinnati, where a country boy named Johnny Bench has parlayed his skills as a catcher into a million dollars worth of endorsements and franchise arrangements. The resulting collection of interviews and observations is an affectionate, and at times painfully accurate evocation of the game-and its recent erosions...
...senior had originally been a catcher, and the St. Louis Cardinals were impressed enough with his defensive talents and his textbook left-handed swing to offer him $40,000 to sign as a high school senior. He declined, choosing first a career at South Carolina, but somewhere along the line he gained 20 pounds and lost his quickness, forcing the switch to DH. His career took several spins and culminated in his final batting average .222. Pro interest has waned, to say the least, but the South Carolina bench was plenty excited when he broke...
Hello tradition. Little brother Chris Bando, having emerged as a switch-hitting catcher, came up in the bottom of the inning, having done nothing of significance save muff a few pop fouls. He promptly belted one off the same light tower, and this time it was over...
...Crimson moved in front in the bottom of the third. Rich Pearce reached first and a force at second replaced him with catcher Steve Joyce. Centerfielder Dave Singleton knocked a solid triple into left, scoring Joyce to propel the Crimson ahead...