And Elaine Sortino, now the softball coach and assistant athletic director at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst, had to cut part of the shinpads off and stuff padding in a first-baseman's glove to outfit herself as a catcher.
12.
Some proud souls in Finland, the Czech Republic, Russia, Sweden, the US, and even Belarus may argue otherwise, but as of 3 : 04 p . m . Mountain Time Sunday, the puck, stick, and shinpads were placed firmly and formally back in place among all things Canadian.
13.
The two constituencies-- the hockey players and the wrestlers-- sometimes overlapped, and in the genuine spirit of athletic fellowship a lucky teenage boy, still in his skates and shinpads, was sometimes allowed to wear around his neck the trademark horseshoe of Haystack Muldoon, who was a sort of discount, Beantown version of Haystack Calhoun, the other horseshoe-wearing grappler.
