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An old-fashioned word referring to a baseball bat, which is typically made of wood from an ash tree. "The shrewd manager substitutes a fast runner for a slow one, and sends in a pinch hitter when the man he takes out is just as good with the ash as the man he sends in." [16]
Women competing against each other in base ball dates back to at least 1875 when the first female professional baseball players were recruited to play on teams according to their hair color. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] The "National Amusement Association", created by Illinois businessman Frank Myers, advertised the novelty of women playing baseball and ...
[10] Ironically, the only mention of baseball in The Chronicles of Cooperstown describes an old-fashioned game: 1877. A famous game of old-fashioned base ball was played here, in August—Judge Sturges heading the "Reds" and Judge Edick the "Blues"—16 on a side. The victory was with the "Blues." It called together a large concourse of people.
The nickname "Orioles" first appears in the Spalding Guide in the 1895 edition which covered their first championship season, 1894; notably, the previous year's Guide never used the name at all. The term "Old Oriole" is sometimes used to describe a player whose aggressive style fits the legacy of those 1890s teams.
For example, when British money was decimalized and the new penny of 1/100 pound was adopted, the previous penny of 1/240 pound became known as the old penny. Old-fashioned refers to any practice which is no longer customary, e.g. in the context of dress sense, hairstyle or wording, as opposed to (the) fashion, which refers to anything which is ...
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Miscellaneous Baseball Old Time Radio. During the spring of 2020, when the Major League Baseball season was on hold due to the COVID-19 pandemic, I did my bit to alleviate baseball fans’ hunger ...
Amateur, unsophisticated, unprofessional. From the baseball term "bush league" for a second-rate baseball league and therefore its players (as in bush-league pitcher etc.). OED cites its first baseball use as 1906 (although there are uses as early as 1896), [18] non-baseball in 1914. [19] Contrast big league, above.