Last updated on March 28, 2019 at 11:09 am
In the spirit of Opening Day, we’ve taken a look at some of baseball’s most uniquely unusual terms. If you’ve ever watched a game on TV or listened on the radio, you may have heard the announcer weave an audible tapestry that, to the untrained ear, sounds like a bunch of nonsense.
They’re speaking the language of baseball that’s been passed down from generation to generation. It’s part of the allure of “America’s pastime.”
The thing is, a lot of baseball nomenclature sounds good enough to eat. See if you can guess these ridiculous food-related baseball terms.
That was cool
This quiz was quite challenging .
What fun to learn this kind of stuff! Do any announcers really still use expressions like this anymore…or are they staples of the game and the average person would hear them used in just about any game..ball game I mean??
This was fun!! My husband knew all the answers
Quiz was rather easy since i’m A baseball fanatic
Correct me if I’m wrong, but hot dog is applied to players who like to show off: example, Mr. October, Reggie Jackson. Also, I believe there is a term like “cutting the pie”(?) that applies to a fancy flip between the SS and 2B around the bag for a force out or a double play.
Your quiz was “a piece of cake”!
I should have waited for my husband to be home before I answered the questions! 🙂 But it was fun anyway!
That was not only fun, but informative!
That was a Eckersley moment!
love it.
THANKS ECK. HE HELPED ME ACE THIS. haha
Fun, never realized there were so many food sayings in baseball.