baseball-player

plural baseball-players

1. alternativeAlternative form of baseball player.

   A baseball-player who operates on a higher level than the rest

   1995 March 18, “Pink Sportsword”, in Manchester Evening News, number 39,101, Manchester, →ISSN, →OCLC, “The Pink” section, page 19, column 1

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   The band to take the place of the baseball-players as they become fatigued and fall out.

   1866 July 19, Utica Fossil Baseball Club, quotee, “An Extraordinary Game at Syracuse”, in The Daily Pantagraph, volume X, number 149 (2884 overall), Bloomington, Ill.: Steele, Briggs & Co., published 1 September 1866, →OCLC, page [2], column 2

   The sawing began at 10.25; all hands rested thirty minutes, and lunched at 12 o’clock. The Independents completed their last stick in three hours and ten minutes.—The Fenians got through next. Then the baseball-players, […]

   1867 November 11, Daily Evening News, volume IX, number 137, Fall River, Mass.: Almy, Milne & Co., →OCLC, page [4], column 1

   Bob Gibson was the major-league baseball-player who once played for the Globetrotters.

   1985 January 30, Darrell Simmons, “Sportsbeat”, in The Atlanta Constitution, Atlanta, Ga., →OCLC, page 2-B, column 5