Word: catchers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...devotee of puzzles, particularly the crosswords in the New York Times, and has come across himself on occasion. "Bench's battery-mate." He lets out a laugh, one of his high-pitched cackles. Johnny Bench still toils in Cincinnati, but he's not a catcher any more, and Bench's battery-mate is back in New York City, mostly to drum up customers, maybe to prepare himself for what he considers a "cerebral challenge"-managing...
Even in a world of "buy one, get one free," the full-page New York Times ad was an eye-catcher. The deal: buy an apartment in the Viscaya, a new luxury high-rise on Manhattan's swanky East Side, and drive away in a free 1983 Rolls-Royce Silver Spirit. "If you already own a Rolls," continued the ad, "we can discuss alternative options...
...creating the summer of '69 for middle-aged Mittys was the idea of Randy Hundley, 40, catcher for the team that year, and Allan Goldin, 43, former head of the Evelyn Wood Reading Dynamics Institute and a lifelong Cub loyalist. The two men had formed All Star Baseball, Inc., in 1980 to run summer baseball camps for children, and late last year they decided to put on a spring training camp for adults over 35, or "middleaged kids," in Hundley's phrase. They expected 35 takers but accepted...
...shape, and my arm feels good. I can still twist off a few curves, pull the string on a change-up, throw a fair knuckleball, and move the ball around pretty good." Not everyone had such steely resolve. Denny Albano, 42, a Chicago commodities trader who was varsity catcher at Bradley University in Peoria, Ill., trained mostly on four vodkas a day. When he essayed his first indoor swing in 20 years, he shattered the kitchen chandelier...
...Star players could get at least one at bat and play an inning in the field. The result, after five hours: 23-6. There were no bad scenes. Cubs Veteran Oliver, caught in a rundown, pretended to drop dead. But there were genuine heroic moments too. Ignoring Catcher Marzelli's call for a knuckler, Peoria Corn Farmer Ken Schwab, 55, who had pitched for an Army team more than a quarter-century ago, "reached back a few years for the best fast ball I could find," and struck Ernie Banks out swinging. Catcher Albano and Short stop Ike Ackerman...