Talk:Inside Baseball

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[edit] Article history

I stopped to think whether the buzword "inside baseball" has a literal meaning, and indeed it had! Google Books is a great thing. My next surprize came when "what links here" told me that in fact this article was deleted only two weeks ago (!) after existing for over 3 years. I am wondering whether its deleted contents are recyclable. Laudak 00:48, 19 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Metaphorical usage

"Wikt:inside baseball" gives a 1914 quote:

• 1914 Paul Withington, Lothrop Withington. The Book of Athletics Lothrop, Lee & Shepard.

  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.

in support of the metaphorical meaning. In fact, the quote works well with the direct technical meaning of "Inside Baseball". Can anyone lay their hands on the book and verify from the wider context that the phrase was used indeed metaphorically? Laudak 01:42, 19 October 2007 (UTC)