ballplayer
ball·play·er [ ˈbȯl-ˌplā-ər]
[ˈbȯl-ˌplā-ər]
: a person who plays ball
especially : a baseball player
Recent Examples on the Web
//The young ballplayers at Fort Lauderdale Little League can never get enough of a good thing and fall baseball has provided them with an opportunity to enjoy America’s favorite pastime beyond the spring season.
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Emmett Hall, sun-sentinel.com, "Fort Lauderdale Little League ballplayers enjoying fall ball experience," 7 Nov. 2019
//Santana the ballplayer wasn’t even born until 17 years after that.
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Chuck Yarborough, cleveland.com, "Santana and the Doobie Brothers bring a little rock ‘n’ roll history to Blossom Music Center," 8 Aug. 2019
//My favorite ballplayers are the guys who refuse to leave peaceably.
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Ian Crouch, The New Yorker, "Jim Bouton Was Baseball’s Misunderstood Evangelist," 11 July 2019
//The Cuban signed for $2 million, the fourth-highest bonus awarded among the group that accounted for the team spending $42.3 million on teenage ballplayers from Latin American countries (plus a $37.5 million penalty).
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San Diego Union-Tribune, "Padres notes: Lauer deals with cold fingers; Bolanos called up to start; Myers’ big trip?," 2 Sep. 2019
//The former ballplayers are accused of helping launder profits from the drug smuggling operation, Rodriguez's office told CNN, though the exact charges being leveled against the men isn't clear.
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Eliott C. Mclaughlin, CNN, "Ex-MLB players implicated in major drug trafficking organization, Dominican officials say," 21 Aug. 2019
//Those guys have got to come on and mature and become good ballplayers.
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Colin Barnard, The Denver Post, "CSU football tight ends draw early praise from Mike Bobo," 7 Aug. 2019
//The Giants were on the road, where most of a ballplayer’s time is typically spent at the ballpark, sleeping, grabbing room service and attending to their duties as commissioner of their fantasy league.
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Gary Peterson, The Mercury News, "Giants take on Pablo Sandoval’s flashy style for flight to Philadelphia," 29 July 2019
//The shutdown, which could last about four years, means that park’s ballplayers will have to go elsewhere.
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Andrea Salcedo, New York Times, "Pave Our Paradise With Fake Grass? Skateboarders Say No Way," 25 Aug. 2019
First Known Use of ballplayer
15th century, in the meaning defined above
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