Where would you find a sports commentator talking about high cheese and ducks on a pond? Here’s a hint: both terms are part of what makes America’s pastime so colorful. • A government official in New Zealand proposes a new, more...
A baseball yakker is a curveball with a dramatic break, the kind that seems to swerve in defiance of common sense. The slang term apparently comes from yawker, a nickname for the yellowhammer bird, whose swooping flight offers a tidy image for the...