# Driving me nuts: list of cliche terms for a baseball player's career **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Tags:** baseball-mlb\ **Created:** [July 11, 2014, 2:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/driving-me-nuts-list-of-cliche-terms-for-a-baseball-players-career/692852 "2014-07-11T14:17:10Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 25
**Author:** ![KneadToKnow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kneadtoknow/32/3999_2.png) [@KneadToKnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KneadToKnow)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2021, 1:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/driving-me-nuts-list-of-cliche-terms-for-a-baseball-players-career/692852/25 "2021-04-16T13:15:10Z")
FWIW, I finally laid this question to rest when I found this page at [baseball-almanac.com](http://baseball-almanac.com): [A Ballplayers Life by Sports Illustrated : A Legendary List on Baseball Almanac](https://www.baseball-almanac.com/legendary/lilife.shtml) According to them, it was a list from a July 1981 _Sports Illustrated_. Given that I only ever looked at February issues of _Sports Illustrated_ ([ahem](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sports_Illustrated_Swimsuit_Issue)), I doubtless saw it re-posted somewhere. I’m confident that it is the list I was thinking of back in 2014 when I posted the OP, even though “rookie” isn’t on the list. In fact, that’s probably why I never Googled it up before, as I certainly included that in my search terms. I have no idea who I was going to pass it along to back then, but at least I found it. This is almost as good as [that time I got to ask Brad Dourif](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brad-dourifs-piter-de-vries-whats-with-the-gesturing/449677/3) what the deal was with the gesturing in _Dune_. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/driving-me-nuts-list-of-cliche-terms-for-a-baseball-players-career/692852)._