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Ballplayers

A player of a ball game; especially a basketball, baseball, or football player.

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  1. 1

    A player of a ball game; especially a basketball, baseball, or football player.

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baseball playernounOne who plays baseball, especially professional baseball.
baseballnounA sport common in North America, the Caribbean, and East Asia, in which the objective is to strike a ball so that one of a nine-person team can run counter-clockwise among four bases, resulting in the scoring of a run. The team with the most runs after termination of play, usually nine innings, wins.
playernounOne who plays any game or sport.
gamblernounOne who plays at a game of chance, who gambles.
gamernounA person who plays any kind of game.
mittnounAn oversized, protective glove such as an oven mitt or a baseball mitt.
ballnounA solid or hollow sphere, or roughly spherical mass.
leaguersnoun(usually in compounds) A person in a league
ball clubnounAlternative spelling of ballclub. [(baseball) A baseball team.]
pitchersnoun(baseball, softball, pesäpallo) The player who delivers the ball to the batter.
hittersnounOne who or that which hits.
ballgamenounAlternative spelling of ball game. [Any game played with a ball.]
ball gamenounAny game played with a ball.
athletesnouna genus of moths in the family Saturniidae first described by Ferdinand Karsch in 1896.
ballparksnoun(US, figuratively) The general vicinity; somewhere close; a broad approximation.
battersnoun(cooking, countable, uncountable) A beaten mixture of flour and liquid (usually egg and milk), used for baking (e.g. pancakes, cake, or Yorkshire pudding) or to coat food (e.g. fish) prior to frying.
footballersnoun(soccer, UK) One who plays association football.
play ballverb(baseball, softball) An expression used at the beginning of a game of baseball or softball.
big leaguera 1953 American sports drama film starring Edward G. Robinson and was the first film directed by Robert Aldrich.
ball fieldnounAlternative form of ballfield. [Baseball playing field.]

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