Frederick Winthrop Thayer
American
Frederick Winthrop Thayer, Captain of Havard Univsersity's basebal teams of 1876, 1877 and 1878, was the inventor of the catchers mask. - AsNotedIn
Frederick Winthrop Thayer, Captain of Havard Univsersity's basebal teams of 1876, 1877 and 1878, was the inventor of the catchers mask. - AsNotedIn
Y/M/D | Description | Association | Composition | Place | Locale | Food | Event |
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Y/M/D | Description | Association | Composition | Place | Locale | Food | Event |
1875/00/00 | Catcher Howard Thatcher and Frederick W Thayer discuss how to shield a catcher's face without hindering his visibility. | Inventor | |||||
1876/00/00 | Fred Thayer engages a local tinsmith to make a "bird cage" mask with padding for the chin and forehead. Thayer brings the mask to practice few days before the Yale game. Tyng will wear the gear at the Yale game. | Inventor | |||||
1877/04/12 | James Tyng, catcher for the Nine at Harvard College, puts on Thayer's rat-trap during a baseball game to protect his face from wild balls and bats. Tyng only makes two errors during the game. The catcher's mask will prove popular with other players. | Inventor | Invention of Baseball | ||||
1878/02/12 | Frederick W Thayer is awarded United States patent No 200,398 for his design for a catcher's mask. | Inventor | |||||
1878/04/00 | A G Spalding and Brothers Company, the leading sporting goods dealer in the country, begins selling the Thayer Catcher's Mask for $3.00 in their catalogue. | Inventor | |||||
1883/08/11 | William Henry Wright and Fred Thayer, an attorney, sue Spalding brothers for copyright infringement. Wright and Thayer will win the case and Spaldings will pay royalties. | Inventor | |||||
1903/06/18 | Fred Thayer host 10 of the 18 men who played on his three winning Harvard ball nine teams for luncheon at the Somerset club. Then they will drive to the Harvard-Yale game at Soldiers field (lost) in a four-in-hand drag to see a crimson baseball game. | Host | David Sears House | Boston | |||
1903/06/18 | After watching the Crimson victory, Fred Thayer and his comrades drive "out to the Country club for supper and an evening's enjoyment". - The Boston Globe | Host | The Country Club, Brookline | Brookline, MA |
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