Definition of inside baseball in English:

noun

• 1US Expert knowledge about baseball.

  ‘he taught New York baseball fans a good deal of inside baseball’

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  • ‘I guess I don't understand the inside baseball here, but now if the Phillies call a potential draft pick won't every agent tell his player to say they have no representation?’
  • ‘He continued to talk inside baseball, following the trades and rumors, in particular the team's need find a left-handed hitter.’
  • ‘His remarks, pretty much in the form of nonstop commentary, combined humor with some sage inside baseball and even a prediction or two.’

  1. 1.1informal Esoteric or highly technical information.
     ‘there's probably too much inside baseball to appeal to mainstream audiences’
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     • ‘Indulge me in reporting a little inside baseball because it illustrates something important.’
     • ‘Is that inside baseball or is that also an important part of campaign coverage?’
     • ‘Perhaps the writers regarded these insights into the president-press relationship as inside baseball, of little interest to general readers.’
     • ‘It's the usual mix of innuendo, bad legal reasoning and inside baseball she's known for.’
     • ‘It's all inside baseball to them, who's up and who's down.’
     • ‘The point of all this inside baseball is that Hollywood is not the do-anything-for-a-profit machine as it is often depicted.’
     • ‘Whether any of this inside baseball will have an effect on the TV/theatrical negotiations with the studios this spring remains to be seen.’
     • ‘As much as the whole affair is the epitome of inside baseball, it is worth examining the process by which the administration is seeking to spike the tough sanctions.’
     • ‘This incessant obsession with inside baseball serves no purpose beyond distracting people.’
     • ‘Here is some inside baseball on that reform.’