Inside baseball (strategy)

Inside baseball is a strategy in baseball that centers on tactics that keep the ball in the infield.

It was developed by the 19th-century Baltimore Orioles and promoted by John McGraw. In his book, My Thirty Years In Baseball, McGraw credits the development of the "inside baseball" to manager Ned Hanlon. In the 1890s, this type of play was referred to as "Oriole baseball" or "Baltimore baseball".