Word: gloveman
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...scored as freely as his bludgeoning partner Matthew Hayden. When selectors ended Healy's Test career in 1999, Australians lost a record-breaking wicketkeeper who more than occasionally saved his side with his bat. His replacement, Adam Gilchrist, proved to be an improvement on greatness?an almost equally accomplished gloveman who became, if not his country's finest batsman, certainly its cleanest and most dashing hitter. Of all examples of Australian extravagance this past decade, none has been more demoralizing for opponents than the sight of Gilchrist marching to the crease...
...draft choice ticketed this season for Class A ball, Brian, 18, manned second base, Hal's original position. Almost no one remembers McRae, 39, the definitive designated hitter, ever having any place in the field, although he was once a gloveman nimble enough to be nicknamed for his favorite brand: Wilson. Old Cincinnati Reds still call him that. Until splintering a leg in the '60s sliding into home, he was slated to be a primary cog in the Big Red Machine but ended up a legendary figure only among the other players...