America's Pastime.
Mallet finger is sometimes called baseball finger.
When you sell someone else's product, it is called "reselling" or "retailing."
Copying someone else's work without permission is called plagiarism.
hondurans play baseball so that there kids can have something else to do.
Because it was origanly called baseball and they needed a ball so they called it a baseball!!
look somewhere else
Earthquakes are also called temblors.
Tornadoes are sometimes called twisters.
It was called centigrade.
They are not called "the new york football jets" by anyone else but Chris Berman. The Giants were called "the new york football giants" to distinguish them from the former new york baseball team (now in SF)... Its a joke that Chris Berman uses, as obviously there is no "new york baseball jets" or any other sport for that matter.
The platypus should not be called anything else. It is just a platypus. It is not a duckbilled platypus, or any other such misnomer.
When someone else writes about someone who is deceased, it is called a biography.