Meaning of inside baseball | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Technical matters concerning baseball generally not apparent or of interest to spectators.
   US, idiomatic, uncountable
2. Matters of interest only to insiders.
   US, broadly, idiomatic, uncountable

Examples

“There always has been a tendency to overlook the catcher, possibly because so much of him is covered up during the game, but more because the greatest part of his work⟳ is inside baseball and of the kind which the general public can neither see⟳ nor appreciate.”

“Here, the game is marked by the "little things" that have⟳ come⟳ to be defined as "inside baseball".”

“But in fact, redistricting remained very much a game of inside baseball.”

“[…] the more inside-baseball the name⟳, the nerdier the subject matter⟳.”

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