baseball
(beɪsbɔːl )
Word forms: baseballs
1. uncountable noun A2
In America, baseball is a game played by two teams of nine players. Each player from one team hits a ball with a bat and then tries to run around three bases and get to the home base before the other team can get the ball back.
2. countable noun A2
A baseball is a small hard ball which is used in the game of baseball.
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Collocations:
baseball bat baseball card baseball club baseball coach baseball diamond baseball fan baseball field baseball game baseball hat baseball jacket baseball league baseball mitt baseball pitch baseball pitcher baseball player baseball scout baseball season baseball stadium baseball star baseball team baseball tournament baseball umpire minor league base minor-league baseball play baseball pro baseball throw a baseball
The baseball bat seemed to speak to me.
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His fists sounding like a baseball bat slapping into ham.
Times, Sunday Times (2010)
This builds up into a 'baseball card' showing scores that indicate how seriously the individual's opinions will be ranked in future surveys.
Times, Sunday Times
Never losing sight of the face on the baseball card, always wanting to be like the person on that card.
Christianity Today
We don't want this to become another baseball card hobby.
Globe and Mail
These events are held each year in different cities, allowing baseball card collectors and dealer to meet.
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Rare baseball cards may also be purchased at major baseball card shows.
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He can't manage the glamour of a baseball club.
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Former college and professional baseball players make up the core of the baseball club.
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Other sporting facilities include a baseball club, a lawn bowls club and a cricket club.
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Athletics began when a baseball club was organized in 1903 and a basketball team was formed after the construction of a gymnasium in 1907.
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This was discontinued in 2014 when the baseball club became inactive.
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He has a crystal-clear recall of what happened to him at the age of eight - he met his first love, a baseball coach.
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He served as the head basketball and baseball coach from 1924 to 1930.
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Duke's football coach approached him the following season, again getting permission from his baseball coach.
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He was also the head basketball and baseball coach.
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He later became a baseball coach, and teacher.
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He would channel his fighting spirit on to the baseball diamond; the metaphorical war could speak for itself.
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We use a little baseball diamond to illustrate that.
Christianity Today
Encouraging, gesturing, and shouting, he pressures his son to perform well on the baseball diamond.
Christianity Today
Maybe for you it wasn't the baseball diamond.
Christianity Today
After work and on weekends and holidays, he could be found on the baseball diamond.
Globe and Mail
Just so long as the baseball fan doesn't use it for batting practice.
Times, Sunday Times
He also said he's not much of a baseball fan.
Houston Chronicle
He was an avid baseball fan who attended as many of his grandchildren's sports games as possible.
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She was an avid baseball fan in her own right.
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Later in this same season, he reveals himself to be a baseball fan.
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The baseball field is the arena of my ministry with him.
Christianity Today (2000)
Once past the checkpoint, we crossed into an open concrete area fronted by a baseball field and an extended perimeter fence.
In God's Country: travels in the Bible belt, USA. (1989)
She paused by the baseball field, now reduced to a dust bowl, and watched a game in progress.
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I remember he was going to take me to a baseball game once but it rained, so that was that.
Times, Sunday Times
He still loves going to the movies and out to dinner or catching a baseball game.
Times, Sunday Times
It was the most lopsided prep baseball game in state history.
Houston Chronicle
Who brought the right set of expectations to the baseball game?
Christianity Today
He took apart the early computers he was given and managed to create a baseball game on his calculator at school.
Times, Sunday Times
The top hat, the bowler, the fedora, the cowboy hat, the beret, the baseball hat ... iconic hats that define eras and attitudes.
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If you noticed him on the beach, or with his baseball hat turned back-to-front at the shopping mall, you would say he belonged.
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Each gang has their own symbol; a specific baseball hat, a balaclava, tattoo, jumper or type of trainers.
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He played with his baseball hat and without it; he tried staying back and coming in; he tried subtlety and power.
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Does he always wear a baseball hat?
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This enlivened a black baseball jacket as well as appearing as panelling on a knee-length coat.
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She also designed casual outfits of baseball jackets and boots.
The Sun
Items such as shirts, patterned sweaters, blazers, baseball jackets, crombie coats and loafers are all part of it.
Times, Sunday Times
Her picks for summer 2012 include snake-print jeans, embellished jackets, chain-mail knits, slouchy track pants, baseball jackets, sweat tops and short, curvy dresses with a hint of a metallic sheen.
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He preferred bright, garish casual clothing; orange t-shirts, bright red shorts, baseball jackets, striped track suits, multicolored socks and blue jeans.
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He joined military college at the age of 17, because he wanted to play in its baseball league.
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A baseball league was begun in 1897, and basketball was added to the program in 1916.
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In 1879, the first official intercollegiate baseball league was formed.
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First, the umpires overestimated the power that they had over the baseball league and the strength of their group's resolve.
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In the 1970s, high school baseball league was popular on a national scale.
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Her ears were erect; the skin behind them was as soft as an ancient and well-oiled baseball mitt.
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Friends of his pointed to the hands, which were meaty 'like a baseball mitt', and which the strangers seemed to hold in the same way that he did.
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Fielding equipment (10 bags including baseball mitts, springloaded stumps, fielding nets, rubberised bats, fielding ramps).
The Sun
He went to a neurologist when his left wrist was hit by a baseball pitch and did not heal.
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No one's quite sure what that means, because there are only five bases on a baseball pitch.
The Sun
This field was originally a baseball pitch, so it was reconditioned to suit football demand.
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The corresponding slow velocity bears more resemblance to a slow-pitch softball delivery than to a traditional baseball pitch.
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He took on the baseball pitching role of the closer and played it with style and relish.
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When she nailed a power ballad she sometimes had a grim, nononsense expression on her face, like a baseball pitcher who had landed the ball smack on an opponent's forehead.
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He was a star baseball pitcher but was injured and unable to pitch in the state championship.
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From 1908 to 1922, he also worked as a part-time semi-professional baseball pitcher.
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He would come in with the ball clasped above his head in both hands as would a baseball pitcher.
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Over the years, he has been seen as a basketball player, baseball pitcher, martial artist, swimmer, dancer and gymnast.
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For a season he decided he should be a professional baseball player.
Christianity Today
A baseball player doesn't break out of a slump by swinging harder and harder.
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An average that once made you a struggling but employed baseball player now leaves you out of a job.
Times, Sunday Times
So, you'll have the football player in the spring, the baseball player in the winter, the hockey pro in the summer, and so on.
Christianity Today
One was about a football player, another was a quote from a baseball player.
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He remains an active hunter and amateur baseball scout.
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He was also the first writer to refer to baseball scouts as ivory hunters.
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They travelled with him wherever baseball scouting and playing took him.
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General managers, managers, and baseball scouts use statistics to evaluate players and make strategic decisions.
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Professional baseball scouts have had a divided opinion on the issue.
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Now that baseball season has begun, it might be time to watch some great films from that genre.
Christianity Today
Officials have also postponed the start of the pro baseball season.
The Sun
Perhaps bookend snowstorms to start and close the baseball season?
Houston Chronicle
Welcome to the baseball season that hardly ever seemed to be about baseball.
Houston Chronicle
But the baseball season will have opened.
Globe and Mail
Being in church is something at least as different as being in a baseball stadium.
Christianity Today (2000)
The match will be staged at a baseball stadium in San Diego.
The Sun (2013)
That's one that always sticks out because you're playing in a huge baseball stadium.
Times, Sunday Times (2009)
He was what university admissions staff would call a wellrounded character: a bookworm who could repair a pick-up truck, a baseball star who won a scholarship to study philosophy.
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In college, he was a baseball star and rugby player.
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He was a baseball star, and often played on semi-pro teams for no remuneration (to ensure his eligibility to represent the academy).
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Terry's family involved him into baseball at a young age, seeing his natural hand/eye co-ordination, figuring he will make, in the future a fantastic professional baseball star.
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She was to appear in a set of collectible cards featuring presidential candidates as baseball stars.
Times, Sunday Times
Building a championship baseball team isn't an exact science.
Houston Chronicle
He won reelection four years in a row, and captained the baseball team.
Times, Sunday Times
I coached my son's baseball team for nine years.
Christianity Today
Compared to that, turning around a baseball team ought to be easy.
Houston Chronicle
The person who wrote the tweet was kicked off his college baseball team.
Christianity Today
The baseball club also has prefectural reputation and was chosen to participate in a prefectural baseball tournament during the 2007-2008 school year.
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Every year, it holds a baseball tournament, and pulls in over a hundred baseball teams for ages fourteen and up.
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In 1993, the conference began holding a baseball tournament again.
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Many festivities take place over the three-day weekend such as a parade, baseball tournaments, car show, horseshoe tournament and many other small attractions and games.
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For softball and baseball tournaments, has eight replica baseball fields and an indoor soccer pavilion.
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After retiring, he became a professional baseball umpire.
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In one study, researchers found that professional baseball umpires made more incorrect calls when the air was more polluted.
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He practiced law before beginning his career in baseball umpiring.
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The story of the first African-American to play in major league baseball.
Times, Sunday Times (2013)
There are no instant replays to help umpires in major league baseball but an incredulous nation is beginning to wish there were.
Times, Sunday Times (2010)
Often your problem is almost identical to that of a major league baseball player suffering a batting slump.
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It is a major league baseball from a major league game.
Christianity Today (2000)
What do youth workers and minor league baseball players have in common?
Christianity Today (2000)
He tells a friend he has been in the army, an ex-girlfriend he has been in the navy and a shopkeeper that he has been playing minor-league baseball.
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The field was also the home of minor-league baseball.
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The stadium proved not to be very conducive to minor-league baseball play.
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It did not take long to figure out that minor-league baseball was not suited for the city and the park.
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It has hosted high school football, minor-league baseball, and concerts over the years.
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Suddenly, with no chance to practise whatsoever, the team are being forced to play baseball.
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But they do, because they play baseball and golf with different intents.
Christianity Today
In the summer they would play baseball and fish in the river.
Times,Sunday Times
I wonder if anyone in this country has ever used a baseball bat to actually play baseball?
The Sun
Management later sent out a memo suggesting that staff play baseball instead.
Times, Sunday Times
Officials have also postponed the start of the pro baseball season.
The Sun
It was a famous game in pro baseball history because it set a record for the lowest number of fans in the stands.
Christianity Today
He was always fi t but his sight wasn't good enough for pro baseball.
Times, Sunday Times
In 1986, he tried to start a career playing pro baseball.
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It got me prepared for doing a cannonball into the world of pro baseball.
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It's the principle of the knuckleball in baseball: if you can throw a baseball without rotating it, the chaotic airflow around the curving seam will make it move unpredictably.
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I tried to do almost everything, except throw a baseball, left-handed: opening a door, turning on the radioeverything.
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A friend taught him to throw a baseball, and they played catch almost every day, which turned out to be the key to his future.
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The other day we had him try to throw a baseball pass as a press breaker.
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He reportedly could throw a baseball 135 yards, farther than anyone else who played the game in his era.
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Chinese: 棒球
Japanese: 野球
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