The word 'centerfield' is correct and usable in written English.
It is a noun used to refer to the central area of the baseball field, between the two outfields, where a player stands to field balls from the batter. For example: "The shortstop had to run all the way to centerfield to catch the fly ball."
In Sports Illustrated, Tom Verducci has written a profile of Angell, in which he writes, "What he does with words, even today at 93, is what Mays did in centerfield and what Koufax did on the mound.
Finally, the truth leaked out: For the last 10 weeks of the season, and throughout the showdown with the Dodgers, the Giants used a centerfield telescope and a complex system of signals to tell their batters what pitch was coming next.
AND FINALLY… For 73 years, the Polo Grounds, a bathtub-shaped stadium in Upper Manhattan, was home to some of the most dramatic moments in New York sports history: Willie Mays's over-the-shoulder catch in the cavernous depths of centerfield in the 1954 World Series.
Manning has played cornerback at times in his career, but the Texans probably have enough depth at the position to keep him in what's clearly his more comfortable centerfield spot.
Berry has outstanding range in centerfield, and he's also an excellent blitzer.
But what he really is is a safety who can drop into deep centerfield or, more pertinently, knife through the box.
He's also an inconsistent but nevertheless capable cover artist, both in centerfield and against the slot.
The 12-foot-tall bronze statue of him in the centerfield plaza may say as much about the franchise's history of futility as it does about Ryan — after all, he played just 5 of his 27 seasons with the Rangers and took the ball only every fourth or fifth day at that — but it's almost impossible to exaggerate Ryan's celebrity in Texas.
A loyal fan of both Giants teams, baseball and football, he happily recounted his day in the centerfield bleachers of the Polo Grounds when his favorite player Willie Mays ran towards him to make "The Catch" in the first game of the 1954 World Series (Al can be seen in the much publicized photograph fifth row, third from the left aisle).
Nick Collins's range in centerfield also aids this secondary.
