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Word of the day
for March 29
misfield v (baseball, cricket, rugby)
  1. (transitive) To field (catch or intercept and play) (a ball) clumsily or ineptly; in cricket this can result in the batsman scoring another run.
  2. (intransitive) To field a ball clumsily or ineptly.

misfield n

  1. (baseball, cricket, rugby) A failure to field (catch or intercept and play) a ball properly.

The American songwriter Albert Von Tilzer, who composed the music to the song “Take Me Out to the Ball Game” (1908)—the unofficial anthem of North American baseball—was born on this day in 1878. (The lyricist of the song, Jack Norworth, died 65 years ago on September 1, 1959.)

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Foreign word of the day  in Italian
sdoganare verb
  1. to clear through customs
  2. (figurative, politics, journalistic) to rehabilitate, to relegitimize (people, ideologies)
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