What does the baseball term homer mean? Is #1 the same thing as the poet Homer?
Odyssey
Homer is a famous poet who wrote the epic poem the Odyssey. The Odyssey is about a character Odysseus on an epic journey home after the fall of Troy. In baseball a trip around all the bases is called a Home Run. "Homer" is a shortened name for Home Run.
Epic poem attributed to Homer
In baseball, is a "Homer" named after the poet Homer who wrote the Odyssey?