The Evolution of Catcher’s Equipment
Catchers have always put their bodies on the line. But early efforts to protect themselves met with a lot of flak.
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Catchers have always put their bodies on the line. But early efforts to protect themselves met with a lot of flak.
While the 1951 pennant race was raging between the Dodgers and Giants, dozens of writers and broadcasters covered the dramatic proceedings and turned out classic prose and award-winning broadcasts. The National Football League was just an afterthought. The NBA was not covered in some dailies, and others just listed scores. Besides the classic confrontations and […]
Moses and Welday Walker played with the Toledo club of the American Association in 1884 and thereby became the only recognized Negroes to make the major leagues until Jackie Robinson did it in 1947. But what about the rest of Organized Baseball, the fledgling minor leagues of the 19th Century? Was it just as difficult […]
Editor’s note: This article originally appeared in Journalism History, Vol. 32, No. 1, Spring 2006. Had baseball card collecting been popular in the 1920s, fans of the nascent Negro leagues likely would have coveted the cards of Andrew “Rube” Foster, C.I. Taylor, Ed Bolden, and John Blount. Because these men were team owners and […]
Jerry slings the baseball to me from his crouch, and I can barely hear his “Come on, Sal!” over the noise of the crowd and the L-Pop walk-up music for the hitter coming to the plate. I’m trying not to look toward first, where a very smug Hector Martinez is trotting up the line, courtesy […]
When Jack Roosevelt Robinson set foot on the green grass of Ebbets Field on April 15, 1947, he understood the enormity of the moment and his role in it. He was breaking through a barrier that had been in place for 60 years, and by doing so was elevating his entire race. He knew the […]
“Shea Stadium continues to be a fun place, even in triumph.” From Dick Young’s script for Look Who’s No. 1, the 1969 Mets highlight film that reassured fans unhinged by a world championship that Banner Day and Helmet Day weren’t going anywhere. You know you’re in Queens when you look up and see that virtually […]
Fans packed the Tokyo Dome for Game 1 of the 2006 Aeon All-Star Series. (Photo by Robert Fitts) In March 2006 the Japanese national team, known as Samurai Japan, surprised the baseball world by winning the inaugural World Baseball Classic. Japan had finished second to South Korea in its pool in the preliminary round […]
June 29, 1979, was a night unlike any other at San Diego Stadium. Fans were gnarled in a four-mile-long traffic jam and the start of the game was delayed 36 minutes.1 Gaylord Perry was scheduled to face Houston’s Joaquin Andujar that night. But the capacity crowd of 47,022 was not necessarily there to see baseball.2 […]
0-10, 10.32: That is the major-league career line for one William T. Stecher of Riverside, New Jersey. If you look it up, the record book tells you that Stecher also holds the records for the “most career games by a pitcher who lost all his games (0–10)” and “most career innings by a pitcher with […]
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