Word: catchers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Died. Charles Berry, 69, All-America football player at Lafayette College (1924), major-league catcher during the '20s and '30s, and then one of the American League's most respected umpires; of a heart attack; in Evanston, Ill. Once, as a Red Sox catcher, Berry blocked a dash to home plate by Babe Ruth. Berry knocked the Babe so hard that he did a mid-air headstand, landed in a heap and was out of the game two weeks recovering from the injury. "But in spite of all I'd done to him," recalled Berry...
Back in the 1950s and early 1960s, college kids would no more have been without their LPs of Pianist Dave Brubeck's Jazz Goes to College, Brubeck Time* and Impressions of Eurasia than their paperbacks of Steppenwolf or The Catcher in the Rye. But five years ago Brubeck suddenly disbanded what was probably the most popular jazz quartet of the post-World War II era. He had earned his secure nook in history and was hankering after other accomplishments. For one thing, he wanted to compose serious music-and he soon turned out three major religious works, including...
...unit to fight in Burma under General Joseph Stilwell. Says Frankie: "He never knew whether they would follow him into battle when he gave the order." Her mother, former U.N. Delegate Marietta Tree, contributed some nuggets of worldly observation: "Never mistake a politician. Anyone who has been elected dog catcher thinks he can be President...
...TIME really blow it. And we in Pittsburgh know it. Bench is something you sit on. Best catcher is Manny Sanguillen...
...Johnny Bench is a better catcher than Manny Sanguillen of the Pittsburgh Pirates, then Fidel Castro works for Gillette...