On Deck, the Next Batters Box

The phrase on deck has also been in use forever, and it's familiar to every baseball fan. Why does milpy insist on calling it something not just different, but objectively inaccurate? Or are we all wrong for calling it something other than what m l b calls it? So in this case, i sent this to richard hirshberger, who has been providing some historical perspective here. And he said, i will start with a pedantic response to the question that wasn't asked, because that is the best kind of pedantry. On deck has indeed been used since the 18 seventies. The metaphor itself is straightforwardly nautical. In earlier years it was in the hold