Glossary
- Ace or Tally — run; crossing home base
- Apple, pill, horsehide, onion — the ball
- Artist — proficient player
- Baller, Ballist — player
- Basetender — an infielder
- Bench — manager or coach
- Blind — no score
- Blooper, banjo hit — weak fly ball, "Texas leaguer"
- Boodler — ungentlemanly maneuver
- Bound — bounce
- Bowler, hurler, thrower, feeder — pitcher
- Bug bruiser – sharp grounder
- Club, Nine — team
- Cranks (or Throng) - fans
- Daisy Cutter — sharp grounder
- Dead or Hand Dead, Hand down — put out or batter out
- Dew Drop — slow pitch
- Dish — home plate
- Foul tic — foul ball
- Four Baser — home run
- Garden — outfield
- Ginger — enthusiastic play
- Ground — field
- Huzzah! - hooray
- Leg it — run swiftly
- Match — game
- Midfielder — center fielder
- Muckle — power hitter
- Muff or Duff — error
- Muffin — enthusiastic but unskilled player
- Pitcher's Point — pitchers mound or rubber
- Player Dead — out
- Pluck — fine strike or play
- Plugging (or Soaking) the Runner — throwing the ball at runner to put him out (illegal after 1845)
- Rover — shortstop
- Scouts — outfielders
- Show a little ginger — play harder or smarter
- Sky Ball, Skyer — flyball
- Sky scraper — A high Pop Fly
- Stinger — hard hit ball
- Stir your stumps — run fast/hustle
- Striker — hitter
- Striker to the line — batter up
- Talleykeeper — scorekeeper
- Three Hands Dead - 3 outs, side retired
- Whitewash — team held scoreless for a match or at-bat
- Willow – bat
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