Take it into the wheelhouse

Does anyone know the origin of the phrase "right in my wheelhouse?"
Based on context, it seems to mean that something fits comfortably into an individual's area of expertise. I assume the metaphor came to be because the wheelhouse is where one navigates a boat -- i.e., a place where one is in control. Does anyone know how the phrase developed and came to enter common usage?

I don't know. But I read a similar phrase and was wondering what it meant. I am guessing that it has to do with navigation.

TAKE IT INTO THE WHEELHOUSE - ".we're going to take it into this administration's supposed wheelhouse." From "Had Enough: A Handbook for Fighting Back" by James Carville with Jeff Nussbaum (Simon & Schuster, New York, 2003) Page 30.

"Right in his wheelhouse" is a common expression in U.S. baseball, though I don't know how old it is, or if it originated as a sports expression.

In baseball, it refers to the location of a pitch that makes it easy to hit for a particular batter.