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A slang term for a baseball record that is disputed in popular opinion (i.e., unofficially) because of a perception that the record holder had an unfair advantage in attaining the record. It implies that the record requires a footnote explaining the purportedly unfair advantage, with the asterisk being a symbol commonly used in typography to ...
Download as PDF; Printable version ... This is a category of articles on terms used in baseball, with sub-categories for ... Glossary of baseball terms; A. ...
The safe area is an area next to first base in which the batter is safe from being tagged. It is a 1.5-meter rectangle with the same width as first base, being adjacent to the foul territory-first base, and with its longer sides running in the same direction as the first base-foul line.
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Ed Hartig, is a baseball historian who worked for the Cubs for over 30 years. The Chicago Tribune notes that Nelson had to cut the music before the first pitch. Why the Organ At Baseball Games?
In April 1989, The Dickson Baseball Dictionary, compiled and edited by Dickson over an 18-month period, was published by Facts on File in time for the beginning of the baseball season. “Dickson's dictionary,” wrote Library Journal in a review, “does far more than define the terms and phrases of the game; many of his 5000 definitions ...
Baseball great Reggie Jackson offered fans a stark history lesson on Thursday, recalling the racism Black players faced in the segregated South of the 1960s, on a day the sport celebrated its ...
Here are the words Mike Gehrer said to help the program he built from scratch win its sixth state championship in his final game in the dugout. The words a longtime Collegiate baseball coach said ...