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- To defeat a team by many runs; e.g., "The Braves shelled the Reds, 14-0."
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The origin of the term bullpen, as used in baseball, is debated, with no one theory holding unanimous, or even substantial, sway. The term first appeared in wide use shortly after the turn of the 20th century and has been used since in roughly its present meaning. According to the Oxford English Dictionary the earliest recorded use of “bullpen” in ...
The batter’s eye is most frequently mentioned during television broadcasts. The batter’s eye or batter’s eye screen is a solid-colored, usually dark area beyond the center field wall of a baseball stadium, that is the visual backdrop directly in the line of sight of a baseball batter, while facing the pitcher and awaiting a pitch. This dark surface...
If you never played this game as a kid, you missed out. Pepper is a common pre-game exercise where one player hits sharp, short grounders and line drives to a group of fielders who are standing around twenty feet away. The fielders throw to the batter who uses a short, light swing to hit the ball on the ground back towards the fielders. The fielder...
They don’t schedule them any more, but a doubleheader is a set of two baseball games played between the same two teams on the same day in front of the same crowd. In addition, the term was often used unofficially to refer to a pair of games played by a team in a single day, but in front of different crowdsand not in immediate succession. In this ca...
You may hear this one every once in a while, but it’s a truly rare – and old – baseball term. A ‘can of corn” is a lazy flyball that is very easy for a fielder to catch. The phrase is believed to have originated in the19th century and relates to an old-time grocer’s method of getting canned goods down from a high shelf. Using a stick with a hook on...
This phrase does not refer to an actual league “league”, but instead calls up images of baseball fans, anxious for the start of the new season, gathering around a hot stove during the cold winter months discussing their favorite baseball teams. The term has also come to refer to the wave of off-season player transactions (trades, re-signings, free ...
A Baltimore chop is a ball hit forcefully into the ground near home plate, producing a bounce high above the head of a fielder. This gives the batter time to reach first base safely before the ball can be fielded. It’s usually used today to describe a ball hit in that manner accidentally or by circumstance, but the original Baltimore chop was an in...
Compared to the others on this list, this term is new. The five-hole refers to the area of the field between the third baseman (known as “5” in defensive scoring) and shortstop (signified by “6” in scoring). When a batter hits a ball through that spot and into left field, he is said to have hit it “through the five-hole.” Some players became legend...
Since the earliest days of the game, most ballparks were built so that home plate was in the west and the outfield was in the east, so that the sun would not set in the batter’s eye. Because of this, when a left-handed pitcher was on the mound, his arm would always be facing south when he faced the plate. Thus he has a “southpaw.” All ballparks are...
Shell games started in the streets as sleights of hand—no pea was under any shell. The game played on baseball Jumbotrons is different. There is a pea and most can pick it out. The old shell game is still played, but now by the likes of British Petroleum and Goldman Sachs. It’s known as Corporate Social Responsibility.
Like raging dinosaurs in some prehistoric swamp, the Milwaukee Braves’ Warren Spahn and the San Francisco Giants’ Juan Marichal slugged it out for four hours, 10 minutes, and 16 innings, all through the night of July 2 and into the early minutes of July 3, 1963. Spahn, 42, personified an aging Tyrannosaurus rex defending his grip on the ...
An illegal shell game performed with bottle caps on Fulton Street in New York City. The shell game (also known as thimblerig, three shells and a pea, the old army game) is often portrayed as a gambling game, but in reality, when a wager for money is made, it is almost always a confidence trick used to perpetrate fraud. [ 1]
Feb 16, 2024 · While predominantly known as a cornerstone of American culture, the origins of baseball trace back to older bat-and-ball games played in various forms around the world. This article explores the earliest roots of baseball, shedding light on how it evolved into the beloved sport known today.
Jul 24, 2024 · Baseball, game played with a bat, a ball, and gloves between two teams of nine players each on a field with four bases laid out in a diamond. Long called America’s ‘national pastime’ and thought to have been invented in the U.S., the game was actually derived from the English game of rounders.
