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In the winter of 1876, Thayer went to a local tinsmith to construct a "bird cage" like mask with padding to the chin and forehead. [1] Practice sessions between Tyng and Thayer proved the mask successful and on April 12, 1877, the first professional baseball game was played with a catcher's mask.
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James Alexander Tyng (May 27, 1856 – October 30, 1931) is known as the first baseball player to wear a catcher's mask while playing for Harvard College in 1877. The team manager, Fred Thayer , received a patent for the mask in 1878.
A catcher attempts to block a baserunner from reaching home plate. In baseball, blocking the plate is a technique performed by a catcher to prevent a runner from scoring. The act of blocking the plate accounted for most of the physical contact in Major League Baseball prior to the 2014 season, when it was outlawed except when the catcher already has possession of the ball.
The guard was invented in 1976 by Los Angeles Dodgers trainer Bill Buhler after catcher Steve Yeager was impaled in the throat by pieces of a broken bat. It was designed to hang from the bottom of the catcher's mask and protect against foul balls. [1] This guard was compared to a goat's beard. [2]
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The Game Caterers is a new concept entertainment delivery service in which producer Na Yeong-seok (Na PD) visits official broadcasting events and entertainment programs of various guests, regardless of entertainment or drama, and plans to bring laughter to guests through multiple games played in New Journey to the West or Channel 15 Nights.
But in recent decades, the workload of top major league catchers has gradually increased, and the top ten career leaders all made their major league debuts after 1968. Iván Rodríguez [3] [4] [5] is the all-time leader in games played as a catcher, playing 2,427 games at the position. [6]