OXFORD 9000
📚 noun • entry_id 27078

catcher

/ˈkæt͡ʃə/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
colector
Someone or something that catches.
receptor
The player who squats behind home plate and receives the pitches from the pitcher.
A “pitchometer” was installed on the scoreboard to time the pitchers. According the baseball rules a pitcher had to throw a pitch within 20 seconds after he received the ball from…
Finding Dempsey in my mind's eye in January was not quite startling, ...but some other catchers turned up in my hot-stove reveries as well. Bob Boone, for instance.
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