Quick Pitch

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:

    “I had a quick grasp of the secret to sanity—it had become the ability to hold the maximum of impossible combinations in one’s mind.”
    —Norman Mailer (b. 1923)

    “I dream that I have brought
    To such a pitch my thought
    That coming time can say,
    “He shadowed in a glass
    What thing her body was.””
    —William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)