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In baseball, a brushback pitch is any pitch intended to establish a pitcher's command of the inside portion of the strike zone, usually involving throwing a pitch at or near a hitter who may be covering that portion of the strike zone. Its baseball usage is cited in many dictionaries, [15] but its transition to the vernacular has yet to be dated.
The use of baseball as a sexual script in general, regardless of what each base signifies, has been critiqued by sexuality educators for misrepresenting sex as a contest with a winner and loser. And Others argue that the baseball metaphor reflects U.S. ideas about sex as a contest to be won, rather than a mutual and consensual activity.
In games where a ball may be legally caught (e.g. baseball) or carried (e.g. American football), a player (or the player's team) may be penalized for dropping the ball; for example, an American football player who drops a ball ("fumbles") risks having the ball recovered and carried by the other team; in baseball, a player who drops a thrown or ...
Female "groupie" known to "be easy" for baseball players. Susan Sarandon played such a role as the character Annie Savoy in the 1988 American film "Bull Durham". Infamous Ruth Ann Steinhagen was the first "Baseball Annie". She became obsessed with Cubs and then Phillies first baseman Eddie Waitkus. She shot him through the chest, nearly killing ...
The Oracle of Omaha used a baseball analogy to communicate his key rules for investing, Rodriguez tells Yahoo Finance in a new interview. The two met more than 20 years ago, after Buffett agreed ...
Random passerby suggests: Fourth Base is pretty obscure; I think "scoring" is a more recognizable euphemism, and it must be related. If it is, it should be mentioned. If not, it should still be mentioned ("The term 'scoring', referring to sexual intercourse, does not actually derive from the baseball analogy, but actually ..."). Anybody up for ...
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