Word: catchers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...plate, MIT is led by Todd Huffman (two for five, .400), second baseman Al Fordiani (two for six, .333), who hit .466 on the Engineers trip to Florida two seeks ago, and catcher Ed Wilcox (two for six, .333). The early returns on fielding percentage look similar...
...baseball season got underway yesterday afternoon when the Chicago Cubs beat the Cincinnati Reds, 3-2, in a rain-shortened, eight-inning game. The first contest of every season traditionally takes places in Cincinnati, because the Reds are the oldest of the major league teams. Cubs catcher Keith Moreland, a recent acquisition, drove in two runs with a home run and a single to give starter Doug Bird the win and the Cubs a jump on the rest of the National League East...
...college games, which are the only ones the team keeps official stats for, catcher-outfielder Martelli (four-for-eight, six rbis), outfielder Bruce Weller (four-for-10), freshman infielder-outfielder Eliot Rivera (four-for-seven) and designated hitter Chicarello (three-for-eight, four rbis) led the Harvard batters. Freshman infielder Tony DiCesare had a home run in the second South Florida game...
...Montreal catcher Gary Carter signed an eight-year, $15 million contract with the Expos yesterday...
...pitchers. We agreed that this was childish behavior, and we tried to write a new scenario, or game plan, in which the umpire was cast in the role of persecutor and a hard pitch in the strike zone would 'hurt' him. Unfortunately we did not include the catcher (whom I'll call 'Milt') in these sessions. Milt felt that the hard pitches were aimed at him personally and unconsciously tried to 'escape' from them, which resulted in many passed balls . . . With more counseling and perhaps more protective equipment, I feel that Milt...