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For the Love of Bateman: One Man’s Obsession with a Catcher

  • Jeff Polman
  • March 7, 2016

The question Ken Webster hears all the time, and the one he might hear forevermore, is this: “Why was John Bateman your favorite ballplayer?” He doesn’t have a good answer, other than the fact that Bateman was the Astros’ catcher when Ken was growing up in Port Arthur, TX in the ’60s. Ken always had

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