Young backstops will stack up with past greats
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| BBTF's Baseball Primer Newsblog found this 5/12/2008 on msn.foxsports.com [flag] |
Plays at the plate, sliders in the dirt — catching isn't easy. Yet guys like Joe Mauer may be ushering in a new era, Dayn Perry says.
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FOX Sports: Perry: Young backstops will stack up with past greats
Published 5/12/2008 at BBTF's Baseball Primer Newsblog
FOX Sports: Perry: Young backstops will stack up with past greats (drowsy Madden-speak ahead) BAH!...These catchers today ain’t a dalrymple on the… It so happens that right now we’re blessed with a number of catchers who meet all those requirements and then some. In fact, it’s worth pondering whether baseball is on the cusp of a new “golden age” of catchers. The 1920s and ‘30s gave us Mickey Cochrane, Bill Dickey, Gabby Hartnett and Ernie Lombardi. The ‘50s gave us Yogi Berra and Roy Campanella. The ‘70s gave us Johnny Bench, Carlton Fisk, Thurman Munson, and Gene Tenace. The ...