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Baseball announcers will sometimes refer to a batted ball going back through the pitcher's mound area as having gone through the box, or a pitcher being removed from the game will be said to have been knocked out of the box. In the early days of the game, there was no mound; the pitcher was required to release the ball while inside a box drawn ...
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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.
Baseball park Baseball field: Glossary: Glossary of baseball terms: Presence; Country or region: Worldwide (most prominent in the Americas and East Asia) Olympic: Demonstration sport: 1912, 1936, 1952, 1956, 1964, 1984 and 1988 Medal sport: 1992–2008, 2020: World Games: 1981 [1]
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Originally the word traditionally muttered by actors in a play to provide background noise. Online Etymology Dictionary attributes the "loud squabble on the field" usage to broadcaster Garry Schumacher in 1938, [105] while OED and CDS both credit sportscaster Red Barber at a baseball game in 1943. OED's first non-baseball cite is 1949. [106]
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