Word: masks
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...catchers' mask so universally used by ball players was invented by Thayer, when a member of the Harvard nine in 1877. Harry Wright does not admit this priority to Thayer...
...Yale College library has been presented with a copy of the death mask of Oliver Cromwell...
...which he tries his utmost to achieve glory and victory for his side. The game consists in alternately running, hurling a wooden ball, and the so-called "base," which is a heavy block of wood, covered with leather. The chief player is obliged to wear a sort of fencing mask and coat of armor to protect him from this "base," which is flung at him with great violence. In one picture can be seen how the finest runner of the Chicagos managed, although he stumbled, to lay hold of the "base" and thus to get possession of it." (The player...
FOUND. A catcher's mask. Call for it at 37 Matthews...
FOUND. A catcher's mask. Call for it at 37 Matthews...