"... _in highn-sight_, that source is still around ..."

Alison Murie sagehen7470 at ATT.NET
Tue Jun 1 21:14:10 UTC 2010


On Jun 1, 2010, at 4:38 PM, Bill Palmer wrote:

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> Subject:      Re: "... _in highn-sight_, that source is still
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> In my grammar school days in East Texas, in our baseball games, the
> boy
> playing catcher was always called the "hind catcher".
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> Bill P
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There being, perhaps, a "fore catcher" standing between the pitcher &
the batter?
AM

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