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Give a manager of experience his choice of one first-class player around which to build a team and he will choose a catcher.
If you wish to become the hardest worked member of a team, put on a mask, protector and big mitt and get behind the bat. You will get little credit for a good part of your work, but will be doing more for the success of the team than any single member of it, provided you hold down the position properly.
No team in the history of the game has ever been a success without a catcher ranking among the first flight, and sustained success is impossible without one. Wilbert Robinson had more to do with the phenomenal success of the three-time pennant-winning Baltimore Orioles of 1894, 1895 and 1896 than the superficial observer would be apt to imagine. Jack O'Connor was one of the men who made Pittsburg a pennant winner and when he left, the Pirates were dealt a blow which told in 1904 when the old pitchers had left the team or ceased to be effective. Lou Criger and Farrell made the Boston team a pennant winner and after that world's champions. With Johnny Kling the Chicagos were pennant winners. Without him it lost the flag. Roger Bresnahan was prominent in New York's pennant winning. And the rule that a good catcher goes far toward making a good team, goes back to the time when a catcher wore no gloves and was known by his broken and gnarled hands, though he was not of as much importance then as he is now so far as brain work was concerned.
The reason for the importance of a good catcher can more easily, be understood when his position is taken into consideration. He is the only player who has a view of the entire field at all times and who is in a position to see everything that goes on. lie is at the point where all of the fielding interests centers with a batter up, and his signals can be seen by all of his own players while invisible to the opposing ones.
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Give a manager of experience his choice of one first-class player around which to build a team and he will choose a catcher.
If you wish to become the hardest worked member of a team, put on a mask, protector and big mitt and get behind the bat. You will get little credit for a good part of your work, but will be doing more for the success of the team than any single member of it, provided you hold down the position properly.
No team in the history of the game has ever been a success without a catcher ranking among the first flight, and sustained success is impossible without one. Wilbert Robinson had more to do with the phenomenal success of the three-time pennant-winning Baltimore Orioles of 1894, 1895 and 1896 than the superficial observer would be apt to imagine. Jack O'Connor was one of the men who made Pittsburg a pennant winner and when he left, the Pirates were dealt a blow which told in 1904 when the old pitchers had left the team or ceased to be effective. Lou Criger and Farrell made the Boston team a pennant winner and after that world's champions. With Johnny Kling the Chicagos were pennant winners. Without him it lost the flag. Roger Bresnahan was prominent in New York's pennant winning. And the rule that a good catcher goes far toward making a good team, goes back to the time when a catcher wore no gloves and was known by his broken and gnarled hands, though he was not of as much importance then as he is now so far as brain work was concerned.
The reason for the importance of a good catcher can more easily, be understood when his position is taken into consideration. He is the only player who has a view of the entire field at all times and who is in a position to see everything that goes on. lie is at the point where all of the fielding interests centers with a batter up, and his signals can be seen by all of his own players while invisible to the opposing ones.
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This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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- Publication date2018
- ISBN 10 1332141188
- ISBN 13 9781332141180
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages70
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