BUSH 🪜 LEAGUE
October 1st 2026
By Sandy Weisz in Raddle Signal
· 1 min read
The practice of calling something marginal or second-rate “bush league” originated in American baseball slang around the late 19th and early 20th century to refer to those lower-tier, small-town teams playing in “the sticks” or “the bushes.”
Theme: Baseball idioms
The baseball playoffs are here, and with them, a week of Raddles based on common English idioms that have their origins in baseball terminology. Go Cubs!