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A baseball rooster catching a can of corn on super soft jersey cotton. First in our "Sandlot Slang" series, an ongoing series of kids shirts, prints and whatever else we come up with based upon ridiculous baseball lingo.
Can of Corn
A high, easy-to-catch, fly ball hit to the outfield. The phrase is said to have originated in the nineteenth-century and relates to an old-time grocer's method of getting canned goods down from a high shelf. Using a stick with a hook on the end, a grocer could tip a can so that it would fall for an easy catch into his apron. One theory for use of corn as the canned good in the phrase is that a can of corn was considered the easiest "catch" as corn was the best selling vegetable in the store and so was heavily stocked on the lowest shelves. Another theory is that the corn refers to the practice in the very early days of baseball of calling the outfield the "corn field," especially in early amateur baseball where the outfield may have been a farm field. - Wikipedia Glossary of Baseball
Printed on American Apparel® 100% Fine Jersey Cotton - Made in the USA - Printed in Kansas City -Unisex
Illustrated by Kansas City artist, Preston Brigham