Besides my last name, Rhubarb has another unrelated meaning. The late popular baseball broadcaster, Red Barber, popularized the term Rhubarb in baseball. In baseball "rhubarb" isn’t describing a plant, rather a “rhubarb” is used by sportswriters and sport broadcasters to describe a heated argument during a baseball game between players, managers, and umpires. If you are a baseball fan you might have never heard the word rhubarb to describe an argument on the ball field. Rhubarb in baseball was a popular term between the 1930s and the 1970s but is rarely used today.
Growing Home - Another Meaning for Rhubarb
