Clipping:The travails of a catcher
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| Date | Sunday, April 8, 1883 |
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| Text | Two weeks ago Manager Reach received a postal from a young man named Bair, residing up the State, asking to be given a trial as a catcher. The request was granted, and on Tuesday last the young man appeared in Manager Reach's office, where Tom Pratt appointed himself a committee of one on examination. Tom found the young man's hands about the size and shape of a ten-pound ham, and decided at once that he would make a phenomenal catcher. Manager Reach was not so sure that size of hands had anything to do with it, but Pratt was certain. The young man went out to the ground and began to catch Henderson, Coleman and Neagle. He stood it for about fifteen minutes and then mysteriously disappeared. At noon Wednesday he re-appeared at Reach's with his arm in a sling. He had passed the night in the Pennsylvania Hospital, where he had been doctored for two split fingers, a broken thumb and a contused wrist. He sorrowfully informed Manager Reach that he had had enough and guessed he would go back to the farm. |
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| Submitted by | Richard Hershberger |
| Origin | Initial Hershberger Clippings |
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