Jacked: The language of baseball

Starting a new series to highlight interesting articles about baseball from around the country. We will call it "Jacked" since it means to steal and also sounds like a home run sunonym.

Get it? Good.

Richard Lucas at the Mississippi Press does a quick essay on The Language of Baseball today - an excerpt:

For the most part, I enjoy the expressions that are prevalent throughout sports. Today, it occurred to me that much of the sports words comes from baseball.

Take the home run itself.

It's also known as a homer, long ball, tater, dinger, roundtripper and big fly, among other things. Hey, go deep (there's another one) with the bases loaded, and you've got yourself a grand slam, or a grand salami.