this-day-in-baseball: February 12, 1878 After designing the device last season to protect his team’s promising, but skittish, catcher James Tyng (2nd row, 3rd from left), Frederick Thayer (2nd row, 2nd from left) receives a patent for his innovative
this-day-in-baseball: February 12, 1878 After designing the device last season to protect his team’s promising, but skittish, catcher James Tyng (2nd row, 3rd from left), Frederick Thayer (2nd row, 2nd from left) receives a patent for his innovative
