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around the horn
around the horn adj. and n. Baseball (a) adj. (attributive) designating an act of throwing the ball around the infield (see around the horn at Phrases 2); (b) n. a double play in which the fielder at third base throws to second base who throws to first base, getting two outs in the process; (also, rare) a type of sidearm pitch (see quot. 19372).
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1923 Sun (Baltimore) 28 May 10/4 An around-the-horn play made the stands..applaud in the seventh inning... Devine grounded to Maisel near the bag. Fritz, Bishop and Styles executed a perfect twin murder.
1937 Sporting News Rec. Bk. 63 Around the horn, side-arm curve to batter when count is 3 and 2.
1937 Christian Sci. Monitor Weekly Mag. 1 Sept. 13/1 Sailors have boasted for centuries of their experiences ‘around the Horn’. Such experiences occur daily on big league diamonds—simply the slang expression for a double play (two men retired on the same play) that is relayed from the third baseman, from second base and then to first. The term is also used occasionally to describe a pitcher's wide-breaking curve.
1940 Appleton (Wisconsin) Post-Crescent 28 May 14/2 The Papermakers had another ‘around the horn’ double play on Saturday, Malewig to Hoeffken to Malattia.
1970 J. Bouton Ball Four vi. 298 We might have the best ‘around the horn’ in the league.
2014 Daily Gaz. (Sterling, Illinois) (Nexis) 28 May Sterling then ended the game with an around-the-horn double play.
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around the horn
P2. Baseball. around the horn: (a) from one infield player or position to another (of throwing either between plays to keep muscles warm or for show), or from third base to second and then to first to dismiss two members of the batting side in one play; see also around the horn adj. and n. at Compounds 2; (b) round all the bases. [Apparently so called with allusion to a ship rounding Cape Horn (see Cape Horner n.), i.e. taking the longer route.]
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1912 Patriot News (Harrisburg, Pa.) 30 Mar. 14/3 Baseball Slang Is Very Picturesque... ‘All the way around the horn’.
1912 [implied in: Sun (Baltimore) 6 Apr. 12/1 He engineered a double play all around the horn.].
1921 Sun (Baltimore) 6 Aug. 6/1 The Champions made a double and four singles, but only got one man around the horn.
1931 N.Y. Herald Tribune 5 Apr. iii. 1/8 The ball went around the horn for the penultimate and final outs.
1936 Cedar Rapids (Iowa) Gaz. 14 Sept. 8/1 Van Fleet went around the horn in the second stanza when he singled with one away, and kept moving when Gasaway and Michaels followed with safe knocks.
1939 Lowell (Mass.) Sun 27 June 12/4 The Lowell combination, Russ Pouliot to Art Olsen to Bob Lambert, around the horn from short to second to first, was exceptionally fast.
1970 J. Bouton Ball Four vi. 298 You throw the ball around the horn—catcher to first baseman to shortstop to second baseman to third baseman—after an infield out, and you do it with a lot of élan.
1986 Comments on Etymol. 16 v.–vi. 8 By extension, around the horn referred to simply throwing the ball around the infield as a sort of ritual before giving it to the pitcher.
1991 Athlon's Baseball '91 131/1 Ernie Koy, the next batter, hit a grounder to Lew Riggs at third. Koy was a fast runner, and Riggs decided to throw home rather than go for a double play around the horn.
2004 Smithsonian Oct. 78/1 Grant spent some time at every position in the infield, from his accustomed third base all the way around the horn to first.
2011 Wall St. Jrnl. 9 Aug. d6/2 Johnson sought to put his spin on one of baseball's time-honored traditions. It had nothing to do with throwing around the horn or stretching in the seventh inning.
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