Word: catchings
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Attempts made to secure the services of Babe Ruth and Rabbit Maranville, he of the marsupial catch, but came to naught, inasmuch as the Sultan of Swat and his midget teammate must be tucked in early these nights...
Coach Henry Chauncey has chosen Lee as the moundsman for the Crimson, while Roopinian will draw the pitching assignment for the young Jumbos. Al Colwell will catch...
...Boston, Babe Ruth made a spectacular catch, a valuable single and his first homerun of the season which helped the Braves beat the New York Giants...
Princeton's protest was apparently based on the sixth inning decision that catcher Reichel's wild attempt to catch Dick Maguire off first allowed the three Crimson runners to score, while the verdiot was rendered after Coach Fred Mitchell's definition of the ground rule to the officials, and the Tigers' two runs from the overthrow were disallowed. Princeton played the balance of the game under protest. The league officials will return their report within ten days, after the protest and Harvard's plea have been filed...
...method of his teaching, as it lives in my own memory, seems to me to have been more like a catch-as-catch-can wrestling match than like ordinary instruction. What happened was that you were summoned to his chambers in Hollis and told to bring with you your manuscript. You were told how to read what you had written. Soon you began to feel that out of the darkness all around you long fingers were searching through the layers of fat and fluff to find your bones and muscles underneath. You could fight back but eventually he stripped...