full court press (phrases/words borrowed from sports)

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Wikipedia has some interesting theories on the origin of “out of left field”:

The phrase “out of left field” is popular vernacular (first attested in 1961)[1] meaning “wildly unrelated to the subject being discussed”, and “out in left field” means “a little crazy”. One theory is that this refers to the popularity of seats in right field at Yankee Stadium while Babe Ruth was playing that position; buying a seat in left field would have been “stupid”.[2] Another theory is that this arose at Chicago’s second West Side Park, home of the Chicago Cubs from 1893 to 1915. After the Cubs moved to what is now Wrigley Field, the West Side Park property eventually became the home of the University of Illinois College of Medicine. The U of I built its Neuropsychiatric Institute building in what had been left field.[2][3] A third theory comes directly from experience of players. A runner attempting to score at home has his back to the left field, thus a throw to the plate coming from left field can arrive as a surprise to the runner.