What is the baseball term coined by Henry Chadwick to collectively call the pitcher and the catcher?
Battery (baseball) Battery (baseball) In baseball, the term battery refers collectively to the pitcher and the catcher, who may also be called batterymen or batterymates of one another. The use of the word 'battery' in baseball was first coined by Henry Chadwick in the 1860s in reference to the firepower of a team's pitching staff and inspired by the artillery batteries then in use in the American Civil War. Later, the term evolved to indicate the combined effectiveness of pitcher and catcher. Some batteries are remarked upon as more than usually productive. Yogi Berra (catcher) and Whitey Ford (pitcher) were World-Series level
Henry Chadwick (writer) elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame by the Veterans Committee in 1938. He was inducted in the same ceremony as Alexander Cartwright. In 2009, the Society for American Baseball Research (SABR) established the Henry Chadwick Award to honor the outstanding contributions of baseball researchers. Bill James and John Thorn are among the award's recipients. A collection of historical baseball items, which featured a letter written by Chadwick on the origins of baseball, sold at auction in 2004 for $310,500. Henry Chadwick (writer) Henry Chadwick (1824 – April 20, 1908) was an English-born American sportswriter, baseball statistician and historian, often