Word: catchers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...addition to dominating the Mid-Atlantic, Countryman gained a national reputation while attending Newark High School. Less than a year after moving from Wilmington Aquatic Club to join Fox-catcher as a high school junior, Countryman earned himself a trip to Woodlands. Texas in the summer of 1978 for the Long Course Senior Nationals...
...wait just a minute here. You gave the Angels Lynn and Burleson? Two of the best middle-of-the-field players in baseball? Who the hell do you think you are Mr. H.S.? Huh? Look, set me up with Carlton Fisk. He's not only a great catcher, but he speaks his mind. I want to know what he thinks of all this...
...talking to Los Angeles about catcher Steve Yeager, who is in danger of losing his starting job to steady Mike Scioscia. He'll be talking to the catching-rich Oakland A's, probably about ex-Yankee Mike Heath. He may even be talking to agent Jerry Kapstein about Carlton Fisk...
After moving up through the Sox system, he hit the big time in 1974, latching on as a backup catcher and utility...
Case histories make that easy to believe. The books that are most often attacked would make a nice library for anybody with broad-gauged taste. Among them: Catcher in the Rye, Brave New World, Grapes of Wrath, Of Mice and Men, Catch-22, Soul on Ice, and To Kill a Mockingbird. Little Black Sambo and Merchant of Venice run into recurring protests based on suspicions that the former is antiblack, the latter antiSemitic. One school board banned Making It with Mademoiselle, but reversed the decision after finding out it was a how-to pattern book for youngsters hoping to learn...