英语词汇air ball的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

词汇	air ball
词源	air ball. Today’s fans would have trouble deciphering newspaper accounts of 19th-century baseball games. Con- sider this description of a shortstop catching a pop-up or short fly ball. Wrote a reporter in the Chicago Times on July 26, 1867: “Williams hit an air ball which was sugared [caught] by Barnes at short stop.” An air ball is what we call a pop fly today.
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