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Catcher - The Evolution of an American Folk Hero (Hardcover)
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Catcher - The Evolution of an American Folk Hero (Hardcover)
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Today the baseball catcher is a familiar but uninspiring figure.
Decked out in the so-called tools of ignorance, he stolidly goes
about his duty without attracting much attention. But it wasn't
always that way, as Peter Morris shows in this lively and original
study. In baseball's early days, catchers stood a safe distance
back of the batter. Then the introduction of the curveball in the
1870s led them to move up directly behind home plate, even though
they still wore no gloves or protective equipment. Extraordinary
courage became the catcher's most notable requirement, but the new
positioning also demanded that the catcher have lightning-fast
reflexes, great hands, and a cannon for a throwing arm. With so
great a range of needed skills, a special mystique came to surround
the position, and it began to seem that a good catcher could
single-handedly make the difference between winning and losing.
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