Talk:Left fielder
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[edit] "Out of Left Field" etymology
Look, I'm all for idioms with cute etymologies when they're true, the problem is 90% of the time they're just folk tales someone made up to fit the phrase. The "source" for the phrase "out of left field" currently on the page seems a little too fanciful and involved to be true. Plus, the article English language idioms derived from baseball says the phrase "out of left field" is debated, and gives another equally-implausible sounding Babe Ruth story. As best as I can tell, it's just one of those everyday expressions of debatable origin that we'll probably never figure out, so there's no use stating a local college rumor as fact here. Thoughts? '''atomicRED''' (talk) 05:40, 23 May 2008 (UTC)
