inside baseball

inside baseball
a) Technical matters concerning baseball not apparent to spectators.

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.

b) Matters of interest only to insiders.

Here, the game is marked by the "little things" that have come to be defined as "inside baseball".


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