Idiom idiom
inside baseball
Meaning
Technical matters concerning baseball generally not apparent or of interest to spectators.
Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Examples
“This conversation is just inside baseball for the team.”
“The meeting became filled with inside baseball that the new employees could not understand.”
“The committee members engaged in such dense inside baseball that the public observers felt entirely excluded from the policy discussion.”
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Last updated August 10, 2026