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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 ...
Bid McPhee simulating playing second base without a glove. Early baseball was a game played without gloves. During the gradual transition to gloves, a player who continued to play without one was called a barehanded catcher; this did not refer to the position of catcher, but rather to the practice of catching with bare hands.
This does not mean that the game starts over from the first inning; it only means that neither team is ahead, and the game continues. In other realms, the term is used to connote a change in tactics or who is ahead in a competition. "It's a Brand New Ballgame for Outsourcing Real Estate" — John C. Maher, National Real Estate Investor, 1 July ...
The "knuckleball catcher" is equipped with an oversized knuckleball catcher's mitt, [40] similar to a first baseman's glove; Doug Mirabelli, formerly of the Red Sox, used a softball catcher's mitt. The Boston Red Sox , in their 2004 world championship season, had Mirabelli regularly catching in place of Jason Varitek when Tim Wakefield was ...
Catcher's mitt: Catchers use mitts with extra padding to lower the impact of the ball on their hand. The catcher is the only player on the field who is allowed to use this type of mitt. (The first baseman also wears a mitt instead of a glove, but it is longer and not as heavily padded as a catcher's mitt.) See Catcher's mitt.
Catcher Jake Rogers was named a Gold Glove finalist on Tuesday, as announced by Rawlings, which sponsors the award recognizing MLB’s top fielders. The Gold Glove winners will be announced on Nov. 3.
Ironically, while the mitt is actually real, the term "a lefty's catcher mitt" is described as being net jargon for "something people think exists, but really doesn't." I'm not much of a Wikipedia editor, but for whoever wants to make the reference, one of the characters gives this description of the term at the end of the episode "Portraitz ...
However, this does not mean that there are no rules at all. Mokilese syllables still maintain a set of rules as explained by Harrison and Albert (1976): In Mokilese, a sequence of consonants within a word does not normally belong to the same syllable, because it is difficult [ clarification needed ] to produce a sequence like CCV.