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Show H BASEBALL LANGUAGE I IS PECULIAR L10 fl Game Is Described in Terms HI Best Suited to Express- HI ing Thought. HH Baseball has its own language. Baso- HI ball experts, tho world over, have u HI "lingo" which often confuses a lny- HH man. Theso denizens of iho press box, HI the boys behind the screen, must needs "mis 'em upJ in getting before friend HH reader all the potent facts of yeetcr- H day 's contest. They bring into use cor- M Pnrass peculiar to the game in Hj describing technically what happened HQ on the greens. Hj Most of the red-blooded Tootera are HH Jerry to these phrases; others are sadly HI at sea and seem to think the writoTS HI arc inflicting on them a cross between Hfll Esperanto and Eskimo, which ia not HI the whole truth by several parasangs. Hll Just by way of setting the real facts HhI beforo'tboso baseball enthusiasts who lH find themselves mired while battling Hll with the vernacular a few commonplace HJH terms that is commonplace among tho HJI plaj'era arc herewith apponded, with HjN sj'nonyms used by writers" who grow HJli weary of using the time-honorod, HJU straightaway king's English. HJff Inning A round, period, Beadon, Hffj canto, frame, chapter. HJI Ball A pill, globule, horcehido, H II leather, spheroid, agate. n To hit tho ball Swat, clout, crown, HJli slam, wallop, drive, bang, knock, Hll thump, whack, larrup, pole, pool-off. 119 Curvo the ball Hook, bend, slant, U sink, a twister, roundhouse. njM Underhand raise Business of deliv- n ering tho ball to batter by using a Hj motion while arm is oporating at tho fll pitcher's side. M Underhand Taiao ball Anothor moth- BK od of delivering the ball, starting tho la swing of" the pitching arm in tho vicin- II ltv of the knee. If "Overhand pitching Tho act of start- 11 ing the -delivery from a point above If Spitball Elmor Strickland originated xw this mode of twirling, by salivating tho I ball beforo pitching. Either sido-arm Wm or overhand mothod may bo used. When ffig pitched properly tho ball takes peculiar MS and baffling jumps approaching tho H Knuckler Somo pitchers, notably jMi Eddio Summers, Lew Kitchie and Eddie jjffl Cicotte, have achieved l'amo by twirl- l ing this sort of ball. Tho knuckles fiji of tho pitching hand aro used in grasp- is ing tho ball beforo delivery, and a be- t wildering curve of tho slow,- floating ype folJows. ' lj f Hook or fadeaway slide Base steal-1 ore thoroughly schooled in the art of running buses adopt this style. In ap-proachmg ap-proachmg tho base they aspiro to steal i tho runners leap to one side, momentarily momen-tarily disconcerting the playor about to stab him with tho ball, and in falling, fall-ing, thrust one foot in hook manner to I one or tho other side of tho base. I To win To cop, frisk, grab, annex, I compile, register, nail, bag, land, salt D away, put on -ice, sting or maul who- K ever happens to bo the losing party. I To lose To tumble, skid. slip, take a H wallopiug. a drubbing, to bo man- I handled,' trampled, whaled, scuttlod, nosed out. sent to the cleaners, countod I out or laid on the cooling board. I Pep Displaying fiphtimr spirit, zest, 1 determination." renewed life, to lceop I up an incessant firo of talk while on I Pitching box Rifle pit, firing line, B peak. slab, hill, knoll, knob, turret, rub- i ber or crest. I Any base Sack, corner, hassock, sta- ' tion, "precinct, or, in referring to eoc- H ond base, one might say tho half-way |