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Ball Four 83: [Y]ou can be seven kinds of idiot and as long as you hang around with the boys you’re accepted as an ace.at ace, n.
Ball Four 83: [Y]ou can be seven kinds of idiot and as long as you hang around with the boys you’re accepted as an ace. Ball Four 272: A fellow who talks big but appears to lack courage is said to have an alligator mouth and a hummingbird ass.at alligator mouth (n.) under alligator, n.
Ball Four 355: [T]he phone was ringing in the bullpen. It was Harry telling us not to sit dead-assed out there in the bullpen.at dead-ass, adv.1
Ball Four 272: An angry man has the red ass or the R.A.at red ass, n.
Ball Four 158: Bertaina, Drabowski decided, was not too smart, and was flaky besides. So Drabowski called him ‘Toys in the Attic’.at have a guest in the attic (v.) under attic, n.
Ball Four 218: Baseball players are not, by and large, the best dates. We prefer wham, bam, thank-you-mam affairs.at wham-bam-thank-you-ma’am, phr.
Ball Four 375: The scout told him [...] that the word on me is that I’m a clubhouse lawyer.at barrack-room lawyer, n.
Ball Four 218: A stew can come under the heading of class stuff [...] in comparison with some of the [...] camp-followers or celebrity-fuckers, called Baseball Annies.at baseball Annie (n.) under baseball, n.
Ball Four 37: A beaver shooter is, at bottom, a Peeping Tom. [Ibid.] 132: A beaver-shooting story was told. It seems that the Detroit bullpen carried a pair of binoculars and a telescope [...] used to spot an interesting beaver in the stands.at beaver shooter (n.) under beaver, n.1
Ball Four 105: A lot of guys would have told the trainer to shove the tea up his bippy.at bippy, n.
Ball Four 175: Oyler [...] started mincing around the club-house, lisping, ‘Hello sweetheart,’ or ‘C’mere, you sweet bitch’.at bitch, n.1
Ball Four 232: Hija, blondie. How’s your old tomato?at blondie, n.
Ball Four 110: [He] gave it up [i.e. a chaw of tobacco] , along with his cookies, on the back of the mound.at blow (one’s) cookies, v.
Ball Four 163: The pitchers’ game is in full operation, and it’s been costing me a few bob.at bob, n.3
Ball Four 271: Boiler, as in ‘he’s got a bad boiler,’ or upset stomach.at boiler, n.1
Ball Four 108: Pitched against the Chicago White Sox today and got bombed. Three runs in an inning-and-a-third.at bomb, v.1
Ball Four 385: They had $500, spent it all and did it up brown: posh hotel suite, whiskey, champagne, caviar, the works.at do up brown (v.) under brown, adj.2
Ball Four 86: Runge [has] been wearing these long, gray sideburns [...] I asked him if he thought he could get by wearing the burns during the season.at burn, n.2
Ball Four 318: [A]n old, fat guy with two missing front teeth was giving us the business from the stands.at business, n.
Ball Four 292: [Coach] Eddie O’Brien continues working at being one of the boys. He didn’t even call Marty Pattin for reading a magazine in the bullpen.at call (out) (v.) under call, v.
Ball Four 163: If you get caught eating at the table with Charley uncovered, that costs a dollar.at charlie, n.10
Ball Four 73: ‘When did you find out?’ ‘They did it chickenshit. They told me in the office when I went to get my paycheck’.at chickenshit, adv.
Ball Four 199: Hey, for crissakes, get the hell off the bus.at for Christ’s sake!, excl.
Ball Four 223: Mike Marshall and I talked about [...] becoming roommates and he said [...] we’d probably have to take too much crap from the players and coaches.at take crap (v.) under crap, n.1
Ball Four 79: Six cuts today. You walk into the clubhouse and you see a guy packing his bag and you both try not to look at each other.at cut, n.1
Ball Four 330: The knuckleball was a doll. An easy one-hopper back to me, a pop fly to first base.at doll, n.1
Ball Four 239: ‘All you prima donna cocksuckers are alike, always wanting people to do things for you’.at prima donna, n.
Ball Four 82: Johnny Podres, the old Dodger [...] was there [i.e. the pub] , feeling little pain.at feeling no pain, phr.
Ball Four 198: I needed a pitching fix and that I was going out to the bullpen to throw.at fix, n.3
Ball Four 125: I once gave Phil my famous atomic bomb hot-foot, which consists or four match heads stuck inside another match. It was such a lovely hot-foot his shoelaces caught fire.at hot foot, n.
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