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"  Baseball pitchers crop up like wild flowers in every part of the country when spring begins to make itself felt, and there is hardly a village, even a four corners, that does not hold an aspirant for big-league honors who believes that all he requires is systematic practice. Just how to get the practice, however, is often a difficult problem, for a catcher is required for every pitcher, and John may be busy or disinclined at the time Jim wants to pitch. So a baseball enthusiast of Jamestown, N. D., has invented and patented a ball-catching and returning device. The device consists of a curved tubular casing mounted on a suitable standard. The balls entering the flared mouth of the device, which is the bottom opening, would all be within such a radius as to be termed a strike. Entering this opening, they strike against the curved back of the casing, run up the curved neck and are discharged from the upper opening with sufficient force, so the inventor claims, to return to the pitcher, or at least to enable him to catch them with a very short run. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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