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Inside baseball is a strategy in baseball that centers on tactics that keep the ball in the infield.
It was developed by the 19th-century Baltimore Orioles and promoted by John McGraw.[1] In his book, My Thirty Years In Baseball, McGraw credits the development of the "inside baseball" to manager Ned Hanlon.[2] In the 1890s, this type of play was referred to as "Oriole baseball" or "Baltimore baseball".[3]
- ^ Daniel Okrent, Harris Lewine, David Nemec (2000) The Ultimate Baseball Book, Houghton Mifflin Books,ISBN 0-618-05668-8 , p.33
- ^ John Joseph McGraw (1974) My Thirty Years of Baseball, Arno Press
- p. 56: "Hanlon was... noted for his ability to develop inside baseball."
- ^ Frederick G. Lieb (2005) The Baltimore Orioles: The History of a Colorful Team in Baltimore and St. Louis, ISBN 0-8093-2619-1 p. 47