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Tag Archives: baseball
Baseball Nicknames
It’s no secret that I’m a baseball fan, more specifically a Minnesota Twins fan. And with two big Twins stories in the news this week, I thought I ought to make another excuse to write about baseball. I mean, there’s … Continue reading
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Tagged baseball, Delmon Young, Jim Thome, Minnesota Twins, nicknames, pop culture, slang, sports
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Baseball slang is in my wheelhouse
With baseball being America’s “national pastime,” it’s no surprise its lingo has become so ingrained in our language. For more than a century, it has been commonplace for both sports lovers and the sports adverse to rattle off baseball slang … Continue reading
Studying Yogi-isms, but instead of “all over again,” it’s for the first time, at least on this blog
Lesson: Reducing redundancy and contradiction Lawrence Peter “Yogi” Berra was as well known for the RBIs he made while wearing a Yankee’s jersey as he was for his off-field RBIs, or “Real Berra Intelligence.” (Wow. I can actually hear your … Continue reading
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Tagged baseball, history, pleonasm, sports, Yogi Berra, Yogi-isms
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