单词 | t-ball |
释义 | T-balln. Chiefly North American. A variation of baseball played esp. by young children, in which batters attempt to hit a ball placed on a large tee at home plate rather than one thrown by a pitcher. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > baseball > games similar to baseball > [noun] baseball1748 pat-ball1775 town ball1813 stickball1824 rounders1828 roundball1834 feeder1844 one-old-cat1856 softball1867 one-eyed cat1908 vigoroc1930 slow-pitch1934 fast-pitch1939 stoop ball1941 fastball1943 lob ball1949 whiffle-ball1954 Wiffle ball1955 T-ball1962 1962 Newark (Ohio) Advocate & Amer. Tribune 7 June 33/3 ‘T’ Ball is a regular baseball game played on Little League size diamonds but without the use of a pitched ball. 1989 Toronto Star (Nexis) 9 May e8 The boys and girls will take to the diamond for continuous exhibition games at all levels from T-ball (5 and 6 years old) up to Junior competitive (20-years-old and under). 1992 B. Geist Little League Confid. xiv. 127 She wanted to eliminate pitching in Little League and make it all tee-ball. 2004 Newsweek (Electronic ed.) 16 Aug. 14 I live in the Chicago suburbs, where the nearest wild area is the icecream place after a T-ball game. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, September 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1962 |
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