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  2. Glossary of basketball terms - Wikipedia

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    baseball pass Passing the basketball using an overhand throw with one hand similar to a baseball pitch. baseline. Also called the end line. The line that marks the playing boundary at either end of the court. baseline out-of-bounds play The play used to return the ball to the court from outside the baseline along the opponent's basket. basket

  3. Glossary of baseball terms - Wikipedia

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    The sound of the bat hitting the ball. The term is used in baseball to mean "immediately, without hesitation". For example, a baserunner may start running "on the crack of the bat", as opposed to waiting to see where the ball goes. Outfielders often use the sound of bat-meeting-ball as a clue to how far a ball has been hit.

  4. Atlanta Black Crackers - Wikipedia

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    It was not unusual for white and Negro league teams to have similar names, but in this case "Cracker" was a term with a complicated history, used sometimes as a colloquial and pejorative nickname for rural southern Whites, but also used affectionately by residents of Florida and Georgia who had long and deep ties to that region.

  5. The New York Rens: How the first Black-owned pro basketball ...

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    From the Black Fives Foundation: “During that period, the Rens routinely beat white national champion basketball teams like the Original Celtics, the Philadelphia SPHAS, the Oshkosh All Stars ...

  6. Six percent of MLB players are Black. How baseball got here ...

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    If the player is elite in basketball, baseball, soccer, etc., the costs are covered. Most young players aren’t Jorvorskie Lane Jr. The majority are like his teammates; nice, young kids who like ...

  7. Negro league baseball - Wikipedia

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    During the formative years of black baseball, the term "colored" was the established usage when referring to African-Americans. References to black baseball prior to the 1930s are usually to "colored" leagues or teams, such as the Southern League of Colored Base Ballists (1886), the National Colored Base Ball League (1887) and the Eastern ...

  8. Glossary of English-language idioms derived from baseball

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    In baseball, a rally cap is a baseball cap worn while inside-out and/or backwards or in another unconventional manner by players or fans, in order to will a team into a come-from-behind rally late in the game. The rally cap is primarily a baseball superstition. The term may also be used by other groups, such as stock market traders.

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