Vintage Base Ball Terms
- Ace or Tally - run; crossing home base
- Apple, pill, horsehide, onion - the ball
- Arbiter - umpire
- Artist - proficient player
- Baller, Ballist - player
- Basetender - an infielder
- Bench - manager or coach
- Behind - catcher
- Blind - no score
- Blooper, banjo hit - weak fly ball, "Texas leaguer"
- Boodler - ungentlemanly maneuver
- Bound - bounce
- Bowler, hurler, thrower, feeder - pitcher
- Bug bruiser – sharp grounder
- Club, Nine - team
- Throng, Fans - fans ("fan" is short for "fancy", not "fanatic") - also the term "cranks" came into use in the 1880's to refer to the fans.
- Daisy Cutter - sharp grounder
- Dead or Hand Dead, Hand down - put out or batter out
- Dew Drop - slow pitch
- Dish - home plate
- Foul tic - foul ball
- Four Baser - home run
- Garden - outfield
- Ginger - enthusiastic play
- Ground - field
- Huzzah! - hooray
- Leg it - run swiftly
- Match - game
- Midfielder - center fielder
- Muckle - power hitter
- Muff or Duff - error
- Muffin - enthusiastic but unskilled player
- Pitcher's Point - pitchers mound or rubber
- Player Dead - out
- Pluck - fine strike or play
- Plugging (or Soaking) the Runner - throwing the ball at runner to put him out (illegal after 1845)
- Rover - shortstop
- Scouts - outfielders
- Show a little ginger - play harder or smarter
- Sky Ball, Skyer - flyball
- Sky scraper - A high Pop Fly
- Stinger - hard hit ball
- Stir your stumps - run fast/hustle
- Striker - hitter
- Striker to the line - batter up
- Talleykeeper - scorekeeper
- Three Hands Dead - 3 outs, side retired
- Whitewash - team held scoreless for a match or at-bat
- Willow – bat
