2006-08-30 09:42:29 · 7 answers · asked by spyispyu 1 in Sports ➔ Baseball
This is from Dickson's Baseball Dictionary. Gives a couple of explanations, although it doesn't sound like one is more solid than the other:
battery The pitcher and catcher collectively. 1st Use. The explanation offered by Richard G. Knowles & Richard Morton (Baseball, 1896) is that the term "has its origin in telegraphy, the pitcher being the transmitter, and the catcher the receiver." However, Henry Chadwick (Technical Terms of Baseball, 1897) clearly implies a military source when he gives this definition: "This is the term applied to the pitcher and catcher of a team. It is the main attacking force of the little army of nine players in the field in a contest." Most later attempts to pin a history on the term have alluded to this comparison to a military artillery unit. Later on, Frank J. Reiter (The Sporting News, Jan 18, 1940) wrote: "It may possibly have arisen as follows: General Abner Doubleday, the founder of baseball, being a military man, may have originated the phrase. As the word 'fire' is a military command, and as the pitcher literally 'fires' the ball to the plate much in the same manner as a field artillery battery fires a cannon, this may have prompted the name of a military unit to be applied to the pitcher and catcher."
2006-08-30 10:15:37 · answer #1 · answered by Craig S 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
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2015-08-06 13:38:37 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
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2016-11-09 23:33:36 · answer #3 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The term battery often replies to two objects working together to perform one action. So in this case the pitcher throws the ball and the catcher catches it thus completing the action.
2006-08-30 09:59:40 · answer #4 · answered by TK 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
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2016-03-28 23:15:26 · answer #5 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't think Pratik understands the question.
It's great how he can mock its simplicity though. He might in fact be the simple one...
How Ironic...
anyway, it's a good question and I don't know the answer.
2006-08-30 09:49:11 · answer #6 · answered by Pete 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because the "pitcher" pitches the ball and the "catcher" catches the ball. Wow, that was simple....
2006-08-30 09:46:13 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 4⤋
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2015-01-17 20:05:30 · answer #8 · answered by lindsay b 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋