tools of ignorance

Catchers, despite their love for the tools of ignorance, are smart.

"People may call these the tools of ignorance," Olson said, pointing to his catching gear.

He has worn the tools of ignorance.

In eighth grade, Verrier took on the affectionately labeled tools of ignorance.

I am talking about three beloved New York ballplayers who took off the so-called tools of ignorance to help their teams.

Given the physical punishment suffered by catchers, the pieces of equipment associated with the position are often referred to as "the tools of ignorance".

Elias has also written a baseball novel titled, The Deadly Tools of Ignorance.

Their equipment used to be popularly known as the tools of ignorance, but catchers obviously display no ignorance in their quest to become managers.

Catchers bear the tools of ignorance, as the saying goes, the inference being that anyone playing the position must be lacking in brain matter to willingly absorb so much physical punishment.

Just for show, for old times' sake, Mike Piazza wore shinguards and said he had more tools of ignorance in his green equipment bag in case of emergency.

The replay would conclusively show him guilty of nothing more than clumsily carrying his tools of ignorance into the kind of hustle play Jeter once heroically made against Oakland in the playoffs.

Armored to the teeth in his tools of ignorance - the melancholy name by which a catcher's protective gear is commonly and unfortunately known - Harper concluded Games 3 and 4 with frustration and indignation.

Posch, who hails from Hopedale and was a stalwart baseball player for the Blue Raiders, is now a senior at Brandeis, where he dons the tools of ignorance for the Judges (he plays catcher).

But when baseball statistics analysts have measured the tools of ignorance with their own tools, they get an anticlimactic and rather counterintuitive result: Catchers appear to have scant effect on pitchers' performance, or certainly far less than most surmise.

The Yankees’ Russell Martin, standing behind home plate armed with five pounds of equipment, known affectionately as the tools of ignorance, bent his knees and lowered his torso to the ground like a Transformer toy recoiling into its compact shape.

An extensive American tour followed the album's release and featured Sentinel Beast vocalist Debbie Gunn (real name Debbie Gunderson) and drummer John Slattery - formerly of the band Tools Of Ignorance.

If they wanted to catch, they caught; if no one wanted to catch, someone was pushed or cajoled into doing the dirty work, donning "the tools of ignorance," as the catching equipment was called (if they had catching equipment).

The equipment used to be called the "tools of ignorance," suggesting that anyone willing to squat behind the plate, inches from a man wielding a wooden club, and trying to stop a ball darting in different directions at nearly 100 mph had to be a little crazy.