--- You wrote: I particularly remember the red cap, wondering what a catcher's mit was and marvelling at how a teenager could be allowed to ride trains by himself. --- end of quoted material --- which reminds me of bringing Catcher up at the dinner table and having my older sister say, "Isn't that the one where the guy's roommate never cleans his razor?" And I never, until now, associated the catcher's mit with the Catcher in the title. I'm going to have to think about this...