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You're listening to Away with Words, the show about language and how we use it.

I'm Grant Barrett.

And I'm Martha Barnett. The

sport of baseball has given us so many words and phrases. I mean right off the

bat I can think of several. Right off the bat. For example is one, but even if you're not a baseball fan you use

baseball language every day right we talk about touching base with somebody you're

taking a rain check hitting a home run hitting a home run stepping up the plate, three strikes and you're out, pinch hit.

There's so many of those and there are many, many, many more in the Dixon Baseball dictionary

and every once in a while I take down this volume by Paul Dixon which is almost a thousand pages with all this baseball language and just peruse it because it's got some really fascinating stuff in there and there's some terms that I think should be part of regular American speech that aren't that are in this book.

For example, Grant, do you know what a Linda Ronstadt is?

Hmm. No.

You might say that that pitch was a real Linda Ronstadt, and that is a reference to the 1971 song by Linda Ronstadt, Blue Bayou.

Oh, I'm coming back.

There, yeah.

Exactly, because it blew by you.

Oh!

That's terrible.

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