"inside baseball" meaning in All languages combined

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Noun [English]

Audio: en-au-inside baseball.ogg [Australia]
Head templates: {{en-noun|-}} inside baseball (uncountable)
  1. (US, idiomatic, baseball) Technical matters concerning baseball generally not apparent or of interest to spectators. Tags: US, idiomatic, uncountable Categories (topical): Baseball Synonyms: inside-baseball Related terms: small ball
    Sense id: en-inside_baseball-en-noun-ZQspMOtu Categories (other): American English Topics: ball-games, baseball, games, hobbies, lifestyle, sports
  2. (US, idiomatic, by extension) Matters of interest only to insiders. Tags: US, broadly, idiomatic, uncountable Translations (matters of interest only to insiders): sisäpiirijuttu (Finnish), fagsjargong [masculine] (Norwegian Bokmål)
    Sense id: en-inside_baseball-en-noun-ddopVUc5 Categories (other): American English, English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 43 57 Disambiguation of 'matters of interest only to insiders': 17 83
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Translations (technical matters usually only of interest to or noticed by baseball insiders): baseballin hienoudet [plural] (Finnish)
Disambiguation of 'technical matters usually only of interest to or noticed by baseball insiders': 45 55

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