Hvor betyder majs i baseball?
Glossary of baseball (C)
En høj flyball, der er let at fange, og som er slået til outfield. Udtrykket siges at stamme fra det nittende århundrede og er relateret til en gammeldags købmands metode til at få dåsemadder ned fra en høj hylde. Ved hjælp af en pind med en krog i enden kunne købmanden vælte en dåse, så den faldt ned i hans forklæde og let kunne fanges. En teori om brugen af majs som dåsevare i udtrykket er, at en dåse majs blev anset for at være den nemmeste "fangst", da majs var den bedst sælgende grøntsag i butikken og derfor blev fyldt op på de nederste hylder.  En anden teori er, at majs henviser til den praksis, der i baseballens tidlige dage blev anvendt til at kalde udebanen for "majsmarken", især i den tidlige amatørbaseball, hvor udebanen måske var en landbrugsmark. Red Barber brugte det ofte, og en variant, "A #8 CAN OF GOLDEN BANTAM", blev foretrukket af Bob Prince, Pittsburgh Pirates' announcer. Udtrykket blev også brugt af Yankee-ansageren Phil Rizzuto og Red Sox- og senere White Sox-ansageren Ken "The Hawk" Harrelson. Også en sætning, der bruges til at henvise til noget, der ikke er udfordrende. Uformelt kan "can of corn" bruges som en sætning til at beskrive mild begejstring, personlig anerkendelse eller anerkendelse af betydning.
Glossary of baseball (C)
A high, easy-to-catch, fly ball hit to the outfield. The phrase is said to have originated in the nineteenth-century and relates to an old-time grocer's method of getting canned goods down from a high shelf. Using a stick with a hook on the end, a grocer could tip a can so that it would fall for an easy catch into his apron. One theory for use of corn as the canned good in the phrase is that a can of corn was considered the easiest "catch" as corn was the best selling vegetable in the store and so was heavily stocked on the lowest shelves.  Another theory is that the corn refers to the practice in the very early days of baseball of calling the outfield the "corn field", especially in early amateur baseball where the outfield may have been a farm field. Frequently used by Red Barber, a variation, 'A #8 CAN OF GOLDEN BANTAM' was favored by Bob Prince, Pittsburgh Pirates' announcer. The phrase was also used by Yankee announcer Phil Rizzuto and Red Sox and then White Sox broadcaster Ken "The Hawk" Harrelson. Also, a phrase used to refer to something that is not challenging. Informally, can of corn may be used as a phrase to describe mild excitement, personal acknowledgement or recognition of significance.
Glossary of baseball (C)