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Leftfield

noun
1.
The piece of ground in the outfield on the catcher's left.  Synonyms: left, left field.
2.
The fielding position of the player on a baseball team who is expected to field balls in the left third of the outfield (looking from home plate).  Synonym: left field.






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"Leftfield" Quotes from Famous Books



... man was a jack-o'-lantern, a will-o'-the-wisp, a weird, long-legged, long-armed, red-haired illusive phantom. When the gong rang at the ball grounds there were ten chances to one that Red would not be present. He had been discovered with small boys peeping through knotholes at the vacant left field he was supposed to ...
— The Redheaded Outfield and Other Baseball Stories • Zane Grey

... He would of been just as rotten a ball player if his name had been First Base, Center Field or Short Stop. He could do everything in the world with a baseball, with the slight exception of gettin' it over the plate, and, when he pitched, his main difficulty was keepin' the pill outa left field. In the seven years he had been stealin' wages from my club his twirlin' percentage read like the thermometer in Alaska and when he come to bat, as far as he ever found out, first base was in Berlin. I put him on the third base ...
— Alex the Great • H. C. Witwer



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