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  • And if a frappeur de puissance (as sluggers are now known) hit a fleche (an "arrow," or line drive) into the right-center field allee, listeners held their breath to hear whether the coureur (base-runner) would round third base and file vers le marbre (dash toward the "marble," or home plate).

    languagehat.com: THE END OF BASEBALL IN FRENCH. 2005

  • Ronnie Belliard et le frappeur suppléant Mark Loretta ont produit les deux derniers points des leurs sur des simples contre le releveur Ryan Franklin pour procurer aux Dodgers une avance de

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  • Thus, in Canadian parlance, a frappeur ` batter 'will come up to the marbre ` plate' (lit. ` marble '), face the lanceur ` pitcher' on the monticule ` mound 'who, in turn, lance la balle ` pitches the ball' to the receveur ` catcher. '

    VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol III No 1 1976

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