A batboy (or batgirl) in sports is an individual who carries the baseball bats around to a baseball team. A batboy may also lay out the equipment and mud the baseballs to be used in the game.
Mascots and batboys had both been part of baseball since the 1880s. Perhaps the most famous mascot/batboy was Eddie Bennett, who was supposedly hired as a mascot by the Chicago White Sox at the urging of Happy Felsch in 1919, a tale Eddie told often but no White Sox player ever corroborated. After the 1919 World Series scandal, he was hired by the Brooklyn Dodgers in 1920. When the Dodgers lost the 1920 World Series to the Cleveland Indians, some suggested the four straight losses on the road were due to leaving Bennett behind. He then served for almost 12 years as mascot/batboy for the New York Yankees.
Batboys typically wear the same uniform design as their associated team. They will also usually wear a batting helmet to protect them from flying balls or bats.
During any given major league game, both the home and visiting team batboys will be drawn from the city where the game is taking place (batboys typically do not travel on the road with their team, unless they are relatives of a player). Home batboys often have regular jobs with a team, and thus may wear their first names on their uniforms; visiting teams, on the other hand, usually do not know who will be serving as their batboys on the road, and thus will send uniforms of various sizes to accommodate batboys of varying heights and weights.
Yeah, it was so hard to say goodbye
Yeah, you should know by now
And it is what it is, the boyz in the house
Yeah, it's BTOB come on!
Sarangbagge nan molla I want you, only you
idaeron jeoldaero bonael sun eopseo
ggeunnaejaneun mal hamburo hajima
It's so blue, it's so blue
Cheoeum mannan nal geu nal gieokani
bi oneun apgujeong georie
usan hana-e eoggaereul jeoksimyeo
urin cham haengbokaetjanha
Dasi malhajiman molla nan ibyeolhaneun bangbeop
gollanhan annyeongiran maldo na molla ra
ddo ollana hadeusi gidarineun geon nae mogeul jolla mak Yeah
nae nune areungeorineun neo
geureon nal dugo gabeorineun neo
sunjeongnam Ain't no Casanova
Hot-han geudae sarangbagge nan molla
Sarangbagge nan molla I want you, only you
idaeron jeoldaero bonael sun eopseo
ggeunnaejaneun mal hamburo hajima
It's so blue, it's so blue
Naneun molla sarangbagge naneun molla nan neobagge
naneun molla ibyeol ddawin molla molla
naneun molla sarangbagge naneun molla ibyeol ape
baboga dwae ddo ireoke oh wae oh wae
Yeoldu-si o-bun makchal gidarimyeo
bonaegi neomuna aswiwo
garodeung arae neol baraedajumyeo
cheot Kiss cham dalkomhaesseotji
Yeah biga ona nuni ona urin byeonchi maljadeon
neoneun ddeonagane naega jillijamaja
dapdapan sarang-gwa jeonjaeng
geunyeoui mameun galdaewa gatae
naega jotaneun neoui geojinmal
holddak bbajyeotdeon naega mipda
sunjeong pa-in nareul gatgo nora
Hot-han sarangeun amuna hana
Sarangbagge nan molla I want you, only you
idaeron jeoldaero bonael sun eopseo
ggeunnaejaneun mal hamburo hajima
It's so blue, it's so blue
An dwae gajima an dwae ddeonajima
neo eomneun naeireun uimi eopseo
sarangeul wae neon molla sarangeul wae neon golla
ireojima Don't say goodbye!
Neo eopsi nan mot sara I want you, only you
ireoke jeoldaero ggeunnaegin silheo
neobagge moreuneun baboga dwaesseo
It's so blue, it's so blue
Naneun molla sarangbagge naneun molla nan neobagge
naneun molla ibyeol ddawin molla molla
naneun molla sarangbagge naneun molla ibyeol ape