| Show CATCHER OF TODAY IS WALKING FORTRESS N X 4 M taa X A k 0 I 1 S 0 W I 1 0 1 X V 5 J aza A A 02 ARC 1222 catchers are protected by all sorts and manners of armor they have masks mitts chest protectors and bands on their shoes to shield them from foul tips in only one place are they liable to injury this lq Is their neck occasionally a foul hits them thein there and the injury Is not only unusually painful but dangerous jack lapp now catcher of the he white sox was struck there some years ago and for or a few days it was feared he had lost the power of speech even today his voice Is not what it was before lie he was hurt lapp has tried all sorts of contrivances tri vances to protect his neck but in no instance have they proved ti cable A man who comes along alth with areal a real idea will be welcomed by the vast army of back stoppers sometimes a mask breaks under the shock of a foul tip and more than one catcher has narrowly escaped having hla his eye permanently injured some backstops back stops like billy sullivan their masks but this makes it so heavy it becomes a burden catching la Is in short some job lie ile not only has hag to give signals watch every move on the bases jolly his pitcher and block runners off the plate even though it means danger from spikes but lie he lq Is so loaded down by equipment that lie is a walking fortress |
