Clipping:Catcher can't remember the signals

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Date	Sunday, January 2, 1887
Text	O’Rourke says that but for one very curious failing Deasley would be the king of all catchers. Very few know of that failing, but to it are attributed almost all of Deasley’s incomprehensible blunders. It is an utter inability to remember the private signals. The pitchers–Keefe and Welch–have tried every way and every possible suggestion of mnemonics to fix their code of signals in his mind. For an hour before a game they would take him one side and try to hammer their signals into his memory. He would give them his also, and when they left the club house for the field he seemed to be well crammed with them. But the instant he got behind the bat away went all recollection not only of the pitcher’s but of his own code. A catcher playing without a well-understood code of signals is like a pilot steering without a compass. The wonder was that Deasley did so well., quoting the New York Sun
Source	Philadelphia Times
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Submitted by	Richard Hershberger
Origin	Initial Hershberger Clippings

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