i definitely don't go here (baseball) but the town near me was hosting a free historical base ball game (1864 rules, two separate words!) and i went out and watched it. everybody had vintage costumes and it was pretty fun to see. the game goes really fast when a hitter can get out on the first bounce lol. even better were the flyers handed out by the association explaining the rules and terminology. on the back were some old-timey base ball expressions. personally i think we should bring these back i want to hear sports commentators say he Grabbed the Leather in Style.
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Language Used for Color & Interest
Excellent Play: Crack Play, Passed it Sharply to, In the Highest Style of the Art
Good Catch: Took Handsomely, Promptly Secured, Grabbed the Leather in Style, Stopped in His Hands as if it Belonged There, Bottled in Style, Thankfully Accepted
Errors: Fielded the Ball Poorly, Failed to Take, Another Chance to Miss and Easy Bound, Muff(ed), Beautifully Missed, Loose Fielding
A Well Struck Ball/Line Drive: Howitzer Shot, Knocked a Splendid Ball, Hit a Corker, Straight-Outer
Ground Ball: Daisy Cutter, Skimmer, Bounder
Fly Ball: Raised a Strong One, Cloud-Buster (high fly ball), Sky ball, Sky Scraper
Complaining: Chaffing, Kicking
To be Beaten Soundly: Chicagoed
Compliments: Showing Sand (playing w/spirit), Ginger, a Grant Man [as in President U.S. Grant], Buck, Rooter (high quality), He is the Whole Team (integrity), Bricky (tough)
Insults: Muffin, Milk Boy, Greely Man [as in Horrace Greeley, Grants opponent], Flapdoodle (incompetent man), Boyo, Meater (coward), Foozler (clumsy), Mudsill (dumb), Fopdoodle (foolish man)
Exclamations & Interjections: Flapdoodle, Thunderation, Dratz, What the Blazes, Dog my Cats, Balderdash, Tarnation, Law Sakes Alive, Gadzooks, Mother of Pearl, Beelzebub