"One spokeswoman, Andrea Saul, has been throwing brushback pitches at reporters who write about Romney's faith, asking if they would write similar stories about Jews". David Limbaugh, The Washington Times, August 19, 2003. Reynolds, assistant secretary for civil rights in the Department of Education, has sent a long overdue brush-back letter to college and university officials concerning their odious and oppressive campus speech codes". " The Washington Times' George Archibald reports that Gerald A. Its baseball usage is cited in many dictionaries, but its transition to the vernacular has yet to be dated. In baseball, a nickname for any pitch intended to establish a pitcher's command of the inside portion of the strike zone, usually involving throwing a pitch at or near a hitter who may be covering that portion of the strike zone. Hollis, Southwest Farm Press, 21 March 2002. " Brand new ball game: New peanut program brings change" - Paul L. Maher, National Real Estate Investor, 1 July 2005. "It's a Brand New Ballgame for Outsourcing Real Estate" - John C. In other realms, the term is used to connote a change in tactics or who is ahead in a competition. This does not mean that the game starts over from the first inning it only means that neither team is ahead, and the game continues. In baseball, when a team that has been behind in runs ties up the game, it is sometimes said to be a brand new ballgame. James Oestreich, The New York Times, 25 January 1994. Under its music director, Michael Palmer, it sounded for the most part like a big-league band, at home in a big-league setting". "For a listener who last heard the New Haven Symphony in the mid-60's, in a game but scrappy performance of Britten's War Requiem, its concert on Friday evening was a happy surprise. OED cites "big league" as specifically American Major League Baseball, and cites its first use in 1899 the non-baseball use appears in 1947. big hitter(s) Īt the highest level used as a noun ("He is a big hitter").Īt the highest level used as a noun ("You're in the big leagues now") or an adjective ("big-league lawyer"). – Steven Luo, California Beat, 13 October 2010. "But Brown and Whitman didn't swing at the questions, instead choosing to stick to a game of political beanball - trading jabs on Whitman's housekeeper, a Brown aide's "whore" remark and even verbal miscues. Headline: "Senator Jim Bunning Throws Beanball at America's Unemployed" – Mason Lerner, The Faster Times, 26 February 2010. In politics, it can be a verbal assault or a policy that is targeted to seriously hurt a particular opponent or group. In baseball, a beanball is a pitch intentionally thrown at a batter's head. To attack an opponent by aiming at their head. Reed Abelson, The New York Times, 27 July 2004. 'It has to be pretty much batting a thousand for a time,' he said". "'But Boston Scientific also needs to hope that a rare event does not become magnified,' he said. May also be used sarcastically when someone is getting everything wrong. AHDI dates its non-baseball usage to the 1920s. In baseball, someone with a batting average of one thousand (written as 1.000) has had a hit for every at bat in the relevant time period (e.g., in a game). Getting everything in a series of items right. MSNBC said Hillary knocked it " out of the park". Goldberg, The New York Times, 18 July 2004. "Patrick Wiles, a vice president of First Pioneer Farm Credit in Riverhead, said the ' ballpark figure' for prime vineyard land on the North Fork is $50,000 to $60,000 an acre, 'assuming the development rights have been sold.'" – Howard G. It was barely in the parking lot around the ballpark,' Brookwood said.' – Stephen Shankland The New York Times, 23 April 2003. The original x86 hardware execution mechanism was not in the ballpark. "'They said Itanium would never be their fastest 32-bit processor, but it would be in the ballpark. The meaning of "out of the ball park" is to hit a home run its non-baseball equivalent is to do something well or exactly as it should be done. A "ballpark figure" or "ballpark estimate", one that is reasonably accurate, dates to at least 1957. "In the (right) ballpark", meaning "within reasonable bounds" dates to 1968. Another meaning, "sphere of activity or influence", is cited in 1963. Ballpark, in the ballpark, ballpark figure, and out of the ballpark - "Ballpark" has been used to mean a broad area of approximation or similarity, or a range within which comparison is possible this usage the Oxford English Dictionary dates to 1960.
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