Word: fisherisms
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...unspectacular success as a college pitcher, Roberts got his big break when the University of Michigan's baseball coach Ray Fisher took him to New England in the summer of 1946 to play in the old Northern League. Roberts balked often out of sheer awkwardness, fell down fielding bunts, was so eager he threw before he got the catcher's sign. But Fisher saw things worth working on-a tireless arm, an indomitable will to win. An ex-major-leaguer (with the New York Yankees and Cincinnati), Fisher put the finishing touches...
...Fisher did so well that by the end of his second season in New England, Roberts had excited the scouts of half a dozen big-league clubs. The St. Louis Browns offered him $225 a month to play Class B ball. A few days later the Phillies offered him $10,000. Roberts hesitated and the Phillies raised the ante to $15,000, then to $25,000. Roberts signed. "I would've signed for $2,500," he admits now, "only they didn't know it. When they got up to $25,000, I knew I was going...
After Botsford walked, Dick Fisher hit a towering drive to right which should have gone for a home run. But the lame-legged left fielder was knocked off stride by Penn catcher Bill Schuck, and he missed the plate. The relay reached home in time to tag out Fisher before he could retrace his steps...
Hard-hitting Dick Fisher, who drove in three runs when he returned to the lineup against Brandeis, will again start in left field. The rest of the lineup will remain constant, with John Simourian on first. Bob Cleary at second, Tom Bergantino at third, Bob Hastings at short-stop, Walt Stahura in center, Matt Botsford in right, and either "Bing" Crosby or Phil Haughey behind the plate...
...game in the first inning, scoring three runs on singles by Simourian and Hastings, three walks, an error, and an unsuccessful fielder's choice. Simourian's steal of home in the fourth made it 4 to 1 and the varsity added one more in the next inning when Dick Fisher scored from third on a squeeze bunt by Bing Crosby...