inside baseball
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.45 in modern English
19
Scrabble Score
14
Letters
4
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Technical matters concerning baseball generally not apparent or of interest to spectators.
American usage; Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "There always has been a tendency to overlook the catcher, possibly because so much of him is covered up during the game, but more because the greatest part of his work is inside baseball and of the kind which the general public can neither see nor appreciate."
- "Here, the game is marked by the "little things" that have come to be defined as "inside baseball"."
- "“Harry, if that’s what you are worried about, forget it. I didn’t even mention that in the story. To be honest, it’s of course vitally interesting to you, but as far as a newspaper story goes, I thought it was too much inside baseball.”"
- "But in fact, redistricting remained very much a game of inside baseball."
- "[…] the more inside-baseball the name, the nerdier the subject matter."
Usage
- American usage
- Uncountable