Category:Glossary
Terms used in baseball.
Further Reading[edit]
- James Charlton and Sally Cook: How to Speak Baseball: An Illustrated Guide to Ballpark Banter, Chronicle Books, San Francisco, CA, 2014. ISBN 978-1452126456
- Josh Chetwynd: The Field Guide to Sports Metaphors: A Compendium of Competitive Words and Idioms, Penguin Random House, New York, NY, 2016. ISBN 978-1-60774-811-3
- Paul Dickson: The Dickson Baseball Dictionary: The Revised, Expanded, and Now Definitive Work on the Language of Baseball, W.W. Norton & Company, New York, NY, 2009 (originally published in 1989). ISBN 978-0393340082
- Peter Golenbock and Dan Andreasen: ABCs of Baseball, Dial Books, Penguin USA, New York, NY, 2012. ISBN 978-0803737112
Subcategories
This category has the following 8 subcategories, out of 8 total.
Pages in category "Glossary"
The following 200 pages are in this category, out of 295 total.
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B
- Ball boy
- Ballpark
- Baltimore chop
- Barnstorming
- Base-on-balls
- Baseball
- Baseball age
- Baseball Calendar
- Baseball Guide
- Baseball Writers' Association of America
- Baseball5
- Baserunner
- Bat boy
- Bat flip
- Batter
- Batting practice
- Batting title
- Beat writer
- Beep Baseball
- Bench
- Bench-clearing brawl
- Black Aces
- Blown save
- Bonus baby
- Bonus rule
- Bounce home run
- Broadcaster
- Bullpen
- Bullpen catcher
- Bullpen game
- Bunt
- Bunt-and-run
- Buscone
C
- Cactus League
- Championship Series
- Charging the mound
- Checked swing
- Chemistry
- Clean up
- Closer by committee
- Coach
- Cocaine
- Collective bargaining agreement
- Color line
- Commissioner
- Committee on Baseball Veterans
- Concussion list
- Contraction
- Control
- Corked bat
- Count
- Crew chief
- Cricket
- Crosschecker
- Curfew
- Cut-off man
- Cycle
D
E
F
H
I
L
M
O
P
- Pace of play
- Pennant
- Pennant race
- Perfect game
- Performance-enhancing drugs
- Personal Catcher
- Pesäpallo
- Phantom ballplayer
- Phantom Major Leaguer
- Pick-off
- Pitch count
- Pitch framing
- Pitch-out
- PITCHf/x
- Pitching rotation
- Pitching staff
- Pivot man
- Platoon
- Platoon advantage
- Play at home plate
- Player
- Player to be named
- Pop-up
- Positions
- Postseason
- Press box
- Prime
- Promotion and relegation
- Prospect
- Public address announcer
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