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Bullpen   Listen
noun
bullpen  n.  (Baseball)
1.
An open area in a baseball stadium, off the playing field, where pitchers may warm up by throwing a number of trial pitches before playing.
2.
(collective) The relief pitchers on a baseball team. Contrasted with starters.





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"Bullpen" Quotes from Famous Books



... the hospitals after Bull Run. Young bravery—the Zouaves—the multicolored guard regiments—and a romance in every death!" She laid one stained hand over the other, fingers still wide. "But here in this blackened horror they call the 'seat of war'—this festering bullpen, choked with dreary regiments, all alike, all in filthy blue—here individuals vanish, men vanish. The schoolgirl dream of man dies here forever. Only unwashed, naked duty remains; and its inspiration, man—bloody, dirty, vermin-covered, terrible—sometimes; and sometimes whimpering, ...
— Special Messenger • Robert W. Chambers


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