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Texas leaguer definition

☆ Texas leaguer

Baseball a fly ball that falls in fair territory between the infield and outfield

Etymology: after the Texas (baseball) League

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2005 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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I always heard that the label originated in Texarkana, which had a team in the Texas League. The ballpark was crossed by the state line, so that a hump-backed liner (Dizzy Dean's name for it) might fall in the same state in which the batter stood, whereas a real long-ball hit would fall in the other state. I don't know which state had the batter's box.

Posted by anonymous 56 days ago.

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