Vintage-rules baseball is laden with lingo and phrases not common to today’s game, including:
Ace or tally: crossing home plate for a run
Baller, ballist: a player
Basetender: an infielder
Bowler, hurler, thrower: the pitcher
Bug bruiser: a hard-hit grounder
Daisy cutter: a hard-hit grounder
Dew drop: a slowly pitched ball
Dish: home plate
Foul tic: a foul ball
Four baser: a home run
Huzzah!: an interjection synonymous with “Hooray!”
Leg it: to run swiftly
Match: a single game
Muff or duff: a misplayed ball, error
Player dead: an out
Show a little ginger: a phrase used to encourage players to play harder
Sky scraper: a popup or fly ball
Stinger: a hard-hit ball
Stir your stumps: a phrase used to encourage players to hustle
Striker: the batter
Striker to the line: batter up
Talleykeeper: scorekeeper
Three hands dead: when a team gets three outs and the side is retired
Whitewash: when a team is held scoreless for a match or an at-bat
