The official game of baseball has been around since 1839 and any sport that has such a history also has a language of its own. Sports great Branch Rickey once said, “Baseball is a game of inches.”What did Rickey mean by this? Well, its definition is open-ended, there is no one right answer, but many explanations to understand what he meant by this often used phrase. The following will give you an idea how the game is measured by inches:“I was this close from hitting a homerun;”: “the ball missed the strike zone by that much;” “I narrowly made a ...