The word 'catcher' is a correct and commonly used word in written English.
It can be used as a noun to refer to a person or object that catches or receives something, or as an adjective to describe something that is used for catching. Example as a noun: The baseball team's catcher caught the ball and tagged the runner out at home plate. Example as an adjective: The catcher's mitt was worn and weathered from years of use.
"For the borderline pitches I reviewed where the catcher had otherwise quiet and stable mechanics, the presence or absence of the catcher head drop predicted the umpire's strike call 31 of 32 times".The implications of Mr Fast's study are vast.
In nearby Springfield, Roger Harmer, a Liberal Democrat councillor, is running on a pledge to employ a full-time rat catcher to hunt down the rodents who have grown fat on the rubbish from the area's numerous take-away restaurants.
Among the other options on the 2013 ballot were Mike Piazza, the best-hitting catcher in baseball history; Curt Schilling, an elite pitcher who was especially effective in the playoffs that determine the league champion; Craig Biggio, a speedy, consistent second baseman; and Jeff Bagwell, Mr Biggio's powerful teammate.
Berg, a catcher and coach, left baseball to join ALSOS, the Allied operation to monitor Nazi nuclear science.
Conversely, a savvy general manager could invest in a great-framing catcher and see his skills reflected in better numbers for his pitching staff.
WHEN Yogi Berra, the famously quotable Yankees catcher of the 1950s, mused that a familiar situation was "like déjà vu all over again", America's Major League Baseball (MLB) had never employed a Japanese player.
The Eye has since become as much a part of tourist London as Westminster Abbey, the Tower and Big Ben; a friendly curiosity, an urban eye-catcher, and an engineering wonder to compare with the Eiffel Tower.
"It's an archaeological artefact," a woman tells me, pointing to her wind-catcher.
Take architecture, of all things: Swiss Re's London office, known to locals as the Gherkin is just across the road from Lloyd's of London's inside-out colossus, still an eye-catcher 20 years after it went up.
He never saw himself as God's slip-catcher, or as a fielder of souls.
It has now become quite risky to be a foreign researcher or businessman in Russia if your field of interest includes anything that a spy-catcher could possibly construe as secret.
