Profanity in baseball? You bet your (expletive) there is.
Most of it is deliberate, like when Willie Mays hit his first major league home run, clear out of the Polo Grounds, and Giants manager Leo Durocher said, “I’ve never seen a (expletive) ball get out of a (expletive) park so (expletive) fast in my (expletive) life.”
Occasionally the profanity is inadvertent, maybe even unwitting.
Like this week when the A’s set about saluting pitcher Liam Hendriks, a nine-year veteran who made his first All-Star game appearance on Tuesday. It was a memorable inning for the Perth, Australia native — he struck out the side and served up a home run.