This is an alphabetical list of selected unofficial and specialized terms, phrases, and other jargon used in baseball, and their definitions, including illustrative examples for many entries.
See Glossary of English-language idioms derived from baseball for common idioms that originated in baseball.
See baseball statistics for more formal definitions of some of the statistical concepts in this glossary.
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Famous quotes containing the words quick and/or pitch:
“Married people should not be quick to hear what is said by either when in ill humor.”
—Samuel Richardson (1689–1761)
“It is beyond a doubt that during the sixteenth century, and the years immediately preceding and following it, poisoning had been brought to a pitch of perfection which remains unknown to modern chemistry, but which is indisputably proved by history. Italy, the cradle of modern science, was at that time, the inventor and mistress of these secrets, many of which are lost.”
—Honoré De Balzac (1799–1850)