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The illustration above ( http://www.stadiumpage.com/ ) is of an early model proposal for "Three Rivers Stadium" in Pittsburgh. This was the home of the Pirates and Steelers, the football team. As you can see you could pretty easily put two football ( or soccer ) fields in one baseball field. The ballpark that eventually was built had the football field rotated 90° so it extended from homeplate out into Center Field.
NOTE: Three feet ( 3' ) is equal to 90% of a meter. A football field is 100 yards ( one yard = three feet ), plus 10 yards on either end, long by 50 yards wide.
  • EXAMPLE: When asked how many people the new factory would employ, he gave a ballpark figure of 25,000.
  • batting a thousand
  • bench
  • big league (major league)
  • bottom of the ninth
    Visitors 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0
    Home 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0  
  • bottom of the order
    Batting
    Order
    1stGood Batter
    2ndGood Batter
    3rdGood Batter
    4thBest Batter
    5thOK Batter
    6thOK Batter
    7thOK Batter
    8thBad Batter
    9thWorst Batter
  • brush back
  • bush league
  • cleanup hitter [batter]
  • come out of left field
  • cover all the bases
  • down to the last out
  • extra innings
  • grand slam
  • hardball, play hardball
  • hit or miss
  • home run
  • knock the cover (horsehide) off (the ball)
  • not even reach first base
  • o-fer
  • off base, "caught off base"
  • out of the ballpark
  • pinch hit ( also pinch hitter )
  • pitch a shutout
  • play ball ( with )
  • rain check
  • rhubarb
  • right off the bat
  • throw a curve, curveball
  • screwball
  • step up to the plate
  • strike
  • switch-hitter
  • swing and miss
  • top of the order
  • touch base
  • turn at bat
  • whiff
  • whole new ball game / brand new ball game
  • whole 'nother (sic: another) ball game.
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