9/16/2023 0 Comments Baseball slang![]() Regardless of your level of sport adoration, I’ve compiled a list of colorful baseball lingo you might not have heard before. ![]() Slang, in general, is right in my wheelhouse-which literally means “a batter’s power zone,” but colloquially means “an area of interest.” But baseball lingo is especially so, since I happen to be a fan. How would she respond when she hears batting a thousand, right off the bat, or even whole new ball game? But think about an English language learner in her first months in America. We know intrinsically what these terms mean because, like it or not, we’ve grown up in a baseball culture. You review your packing list for an upcoming trip to make sure you have covered all your bases. You complain to a friend about a squabble with your girlfriend and say, “She really threw me a curveball.” You get a promotion and a coworker congratulates you with, “Now you’ve hit the major leagues.” ![]() You go to buy a car and the salesman asks for a ballpark figure of what you want to spend. For more than a century, it has been commonplace for both sports lovers and the sports adverse to rattle off baseball slang without even thinking of its origin. With baseball being America’s “national pastime,” it’s no surprise its lingo has become so ingrained in our language. ![]()
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