This is an alphabetical list of selected unofficial and specialized terms, phrases, and other jargon

Jargon

Jargon is terminology which is especially defined in relationship to a specific activity, profession, group, or event. The philosophe Condillac observed in 1782 that "Every science requires a special language because every science has its own ideas." As a rationalist member of the Enlightenment he...

 used in baseball

Baseball

Baseball is a bat-and-ball sport played between two teams of nine players each. The aim is to score runs by hitting a thrown ball with a bat and touching a series of four bases arranged at the corners of a ninety-foot diamond...

, and their definitions, including illustrative examples for many entries.

See English language idioms derived from baseball

English language idioms derived from baseball

American English has been enriched by expressions derived from the game of baseball. Sometimes referred to as "America's pastime," baseball has especially affected the language of other competitive activities such as politics and business....

for common idioms that originated in baseball.

See baseball statistics

Baseball statistics

Statistics play an important role in summarizing baseball performance and evaluating players in the sport.Since the flow of a baseball game has natural breaks to it, and normally players act individually rather than performing in clusters, the sport lends itself to easy record-keeping and statistics...

for more formal definitions of some of the statistical concepts in this glossary.

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-yank:-yard:-yardwork:-yellow hammer:-you're out:A phrase commonly used in baseball to indicate that a member of the batting team has made an out and must leave the field of play....

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See also

• Baseball statistics
  Baseball statistics
  Statistics play an important role in summarizing baseball performance and evaluating players in the sport.Since the flow of a baseball game has natural breaks to it, and normally players act individually rather than performing in clusters, the sport lends itself to easy record-keeping and statistics...
  
  
• "Baseball" Category in the Wiktionary

General references

• Paul Dickson
  Paul Dickson
  For the football player of the same name see Paul Dickson .Paul Dickson is a freelance writer of more than 50 non-fiction books, mostly on American English language and popular culture. He has written many articles on a wide variety of subjects...
  
  , The Dickson Baseball Dictionary, 3rd edition. New York: W.W. Norton & Co, 2009. [ISBN 9780393066814]