meat hand

English

Noun

meat hand (plural meat hands)

  1. (baseball) A player's hand that's not wearing the glove or mitt.
    • 1954, Bowen, Robert Sidney, Infield spark‎[1], Lothrop, Lee & Shepard, page 13:
      The youngster plucked the ball out with his meat hand and walked it to lanky Johnny Willis standing on the mound.
    • 1963, Archibald, Joe, Big league busher‎[2], Macrae-Smith, page 37:
      Beauchamp, also a little allergic to flight, made sure he got his supply of certain pills from the trainer before Cass finished treating a bruise on his meat hand. “Wait until you get on that bus and ride the Freeway again out in Smogville, Frank,” the trainer said, “you’ll wish you were upstairs.”
    • 1976, Rose, Pete, Pete Rose's winning baseball‎[3], H. Regnery Co., page 122:
      This exposed the meat hand to foul tips and there weren’t too many catchers who went through an entire season without a broken or split finger.
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