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Definition of Right field

1. Noun. The piece of ground in the outfield on the catcher's right.

2. Noun. The fielding position of the player on a baseball team who is expected to field balls in the right third of the outfield (looking from home plate).

Definition of Right field

1. Noun. (baseball) The part of a baseball field which is beyond the infield and to your right if you stand on home plate and face the pitcher. ¹

2. Noun. (baseball) The defensive position in the outfield to the right, typically played by a player who can throw well. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Right Field

right branch of proper hepatic artery right colic artery right colic flexure right colic lymph nodes right colic vein right coronary artery right coronary artery branches right coset right cosets right cross

right crosses right crus of atrioventricular bundle right crus of diaphragm right duct of caudate lobe right fibrous trigone right field (current term) right fielder right fielders right gastric artery right gastric lymph nodes

right gastric vein right gastro-omental artery right gastro-omental lymph nodes right gastroepiploic artery right gastroepiploic lymph nodes right gastroepiploic vein right gastroomental vein right hand right handed right hander

Literary usage of Right field

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. St. Nicholas by Mary Mapes Dodge (1912)
"Players who "pull" Fig3 to right field (Fig. 4), all slow ones to left (the natural hit) ; others, by some peculiar mental twist, swing more quickly on fast ..."

2. Principles of Foreign Trade by Norbert Savay (1919)
"The Right Man for the right field In selecting salesmen for the foreign field the sales manager will be called upon to show the same nice discrimination ..."

3. Transactions of the Pathological Society of London by Pathological Society of London (1890)
"... obscuration of the left half of the left field does not even reach a point which would correspond in the right field to the limit of the normal field. ..."

4. Studies in Philosophy and Psychology by Charles Edward Garman, James Hayden Tufts, Edmund Burke Delabarre, Frank Chapman Sharp, Arthur Henry Pierce, Frederick James Eugene Woodbridge (1906)
"Number of individuals tested 17 Number of separate series of tests 68 Number of testa 2389 Typical result: With right field open, line seems inclined upward ..."

5. Studies in Philosophy and Psychology by Charles Edward Garman, James Hayden Tufts, Edmund Burke Delabarre, Frank Chapman Sharp, Arthur Henry Pierce, Frederick James Eugene Woodbridge (1906)
"For eleven individuals, this preponderance of the right field was evident, ranging in amount from 14% to 66%, and averaging 43% ±18. ..."

6. Catalogue of the Greek and Roman Coins in the Numismatic Collection of Yale by Yale University, Jonathan Edwards (1880)
"... on the right one of which rests a small bird; in right field the letters HA, and in left h, L. AA (year 31). do 16.24 JE 29.1 Head of queen to right, ..."

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