baseballbase‧ball /ˈbeɪsbɔːl $ -bɒːl/ ●●● S3 W2 noun 
EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS
- A few feet away, a baseball bat crushed a schoolteacher's head, smashed his skull into a pulpy mess.
- Louis Cardinals major league baseball team.
- No chains, no baseball cap, no eight-ball jacket.
- Peggy took a baseball bat to the Vic.
- The players wore short-sleeve white shirts, long white pants and dark bow ties, with baseball caps and white sneakers.
- Which is sort of where baseball fans and industrialists sit today vis-a-vis the Florida Marlins.
- Without his baseball cap, he looks different.
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a keep-fit enthusiast
(=that people wear for baseball and for fashion)· He was wearing a sweater and a baseball cap.
a keep-fit enthusiast· Jack is a keen football fan.
· He was watching a baseball game on TV.
· He rubbed oil into his baseball glove to make it softer.
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSADJECTIVE· The allegedly good baseball weather is overrated, especially at night.· It seems like the perfect toy, better than playing baseball catch with Dad.· But I also think it would be good for baseball if we started earlier.· He was the best baseball player, the best student, the best looking of all the boys.· Earl Weaver was everything good about baseball in a single package.· Are we saying that Seattle is a better baseball town than New York?· The best baseball was in the predominantly white neighborhoods.· Old men always make the best baseball music.
· But remember, these are great times for baseball.· He said Qualcomm Stadium is a great stadium for baseball.
· This is a much more predictable menace, however, at least to those in major league baseball.· Tuesday marks year number 50 since Jackie Robinson broke the color line in major league baseball.· There will never be a wild card in major league baseball, skeptics scoffed.· When major league baseball began divisional play in 1969, there was, after some initial grumbling, little complaint.· The concept of interleague play in major league baseball is certainly intriguing, worthy of serious consideration.· The new economics of major league baseball also work against inner-city talent, Towers says.
· He pointed to his new, white baseball shoes.· We can turn Anaheim Stadium into what would appear to be a new stadium for baseball.· Detroit voted to tax itself for a new baseball stadium.
· Two professional baseball players find their lives drawn together in unusual circumstances.· Yes, Jason Kidd said, he was quite serious about trying his hand at professional baseball.· Smith played professional baseball after high school, spending a year in the Tigers' organization as a shortstop.
NOUN· On the morning of the delivery he hid in an alley armed with a baseball bat concealed under his raincoat.· They use personalized K. C. Slammers baseball bats, and now you can get your own customized bat, too.· The murder is perfectly executed, except that the baseball bat left at the scene of the crime is sticky with fingerprints.· Families with children carrying picnic baskets, thermoses, baseball bats, shoulder bags.· Get tooled up with baseball bats and go smash some windows in some club.· Three of the seven players told investigators they put Tiger in a bag and beat her with baseball bats.· A few feet away, a baseball bat crushed a schoolteacher's head, smashed his skull into a pulpy mess.· It feels like a kick in the stomach or a blow with a baseball bat.
· The temperature had reached 30 degrees, but one of the athletes completed training still in his full tracksuit and baseball cap.· No chains, no baseball cap, no eight-ball jacket.· She stopped beside a man wearing T-shirt, plus fours, cartridge belt, and baseball cap back to front.· He wore a blue baseball cap backward and a gold hoop in his left ear.· And I usually pin my hair up and stick it under a baseball cap.· Witnesses said they saw McVeigh with the somber, dark-complected man with a baseball cap.· Opposite, number 47 in huge green wellingtons and baseball cap was talking to number 60.· We eat, and then little Charlie gets his baseball cap, which turns out to be a bit small.
· Instead, I was sitting on my couch examining baseball cards and looking them up in the encyclopedia.· For example, my nephew Peter loves sports; he collects baseball cards, and creates imaginary teams in his mind.· George hit upon the idea of buying a few baseball cards.· His baseball card collection was near and dear to him.· Readers of series books often collect books as eagerly as they collect baseball cards.· Then, discarding me like a broken toy, they clustered around Fred Kowalski, engrossed in baseball cards.· On Monday, and when Marty looked for his baseball cards Thursday night they were gone.· He started talking about how valuable baseball cards were, and how easy it was to sell them.
· Instead, I was sitting on my couch examining baseball cards and looking them up in the encyclopedia.· For example, my nephew Peter loves sports; he collects baseball cards, and creates imaginary teams in his mind.· George hit upon the idea of buying a few baseball cards.· Readers of series books often collect books as eagerly as they collect baseball cards.· Then, discarding me like a broken toy, they clustered around Fred Kowalski, engrossed in baseball cards.· On Monday, and when Marty looked for his baseball cards Thursday night they were gone.· He started talking about how valuable baseball cards were, and how easy it was to sell them.
· His 70 homers that season captured the attention of even non-baseball fans.· It began because baseball fans started thinking about baseball and its stars in terms of dollar values.· Yeah, just wait for that first three-game losing streak next year and see how good their baseball fans are.· Many baseball fans in Cleveland beg to differ.· Now 37, Berghuis plays a lot of tennis and is a big baseball fan.
· I remember that I liked ice skating on the flooded baseball field in winter.· But the baseball field had a lot of grass.· A picture swirls on to the screen of a parrot out on the baseball field singing razor-blade songs.
· With the roar of the crowd at a Blue Jays baseball game?· A: Our financial plan on which this whole thing is modeled is based on 81 baseball games and nothing else.· He will be permitted to meet members of Congress as well as visiting Wall Street and watching a baseball game.· It has spent more millions on improvements to Hi Corbett Field to benefit a few weeks of spring training baseball games.· A family of four can expect to spend $ 100 for a baseball game and snacks.· In reality, there are probably more important things in life than baseball games.· In July 1956, the administration banned all golf, baseball games, and dances between the patients and outsiders.· Re-creations were used from time to time on radio programs other than baseball games.
· A: Our financial plan on which this whole thing is modeled is based on 81 baseball games and nothing else.· It has spent more millions on improvements to Hi Corbett Field to benefit a few weeks of spring training baseball games.· In reality, there are probably more important things in life than baseball games.· In July 1956, the administration banned all golf, baseball games, and dances between the patients and outsiders.· Re-creations were used from time to time on radio programs other than baseball games.· She used to run on to the field at baseball games.· Very rarely do baseball games start at midnight.· Also a terrific pitcher in our Saturday afternoon baseball games up at the lots on Vanderveer Street.
· The full kit is flexible enough to print on T-shirts, baseball hats, key-rings, mugs, aprons and tea towels.· We have three limited edition silk bomber jackets, five sweatshirts and five baseball hats to give away this week.
· The new economics of major league baseball also work against inner-city talent, Towers says.· Louis Cardinals major league baseball team.· This is a much more predictable menace, however, at least to those in major league baseball.· The 2001 season was canceled when a potential owner of the independent-league baseball team pulled out of a deal.· Tuesday marks year number 50 since Jackie Robinson broke the color line in major league baseball.· There will never be a wild card in major league baseball, skeptics scoffed.· During the summer between fourth and fifth grades, I played Little League baseball.· Actually, during the summers between just about all grades, I played Little League baseball.
· C., to Texas in 1972, Moores believes baseball owners may have sympathy for the Padres.· There was speculation that it was going to be in two weeks when baseball owners were scheduled to meet in Philadelphia.
· We thought we were building a baseball park.
· Two professional baseball players find their lives drawn together in unusual circumstances.· Examples today may not be as clear as the ignoring of most black baseball players after the major leagues became integrated.· Roy dreams of being a baseball player, or an architect, or a fisherman.· When it comes to marketability, some things just naturally work against baseball players.· A baseball player doesn't have to pay for transport.· All you can do as a baseball player is your best.· Next, for a short time, he fancied becoming a baseball player.· By contrast, look which baseball player is getting seemingly all the commercials.
· Liz, Larry and Billie-Jean were among thousands who packed the Shea baseball stadium to see Elton play.· It is exhilarating, like the first glimpse of green grass when entering a baseball stadium.· Detroit voted to tax itself for a new baseball stadium.· She tells them the baseball stadium is eight blocks to the north.
· They support their local baseball team, the Hanshin Tigers.· Louis Cardinals major league baseball team.· Joe Upex was engineer in charge of the press and he was also captain of the Times-Herald baseball team.· In our sophomore year, for example, Fanshawe was the only member of our class to make the varsity baseball team.· If we didn't play music we'd probably get a baseball team together.· We know this because over the last three weeks, Miami has fallen in love with its baseball team.· He was in the photograph of the baseball team too, looking proud, a giant glove on one hand.· The 2001 season was canceled when a potential owner of the independent-league baseball team pulled out of a deal.
VERB· We thought we were building a baseball park.
· Lawson, 78, loves baseball.· On Tuesday, nearly five months later, the second baseman smiled and laughed and loved baseball again.· There is good news for those of you who love baseball.
· Five days afterwards, callous Paul used the same bat to play baseball.· It seems like the perfect toy, better than playing baseball catch with Dad.· Kids who used to play baseball are now playing basketball.· You wear a uniform to play baseball, you wear a uniform to play soccer.· Kids were playing baseball and tag and war on the dirt and brown grass.· So goes life for an aspiring teen-age pop star who still wants to play baseball in his senior year of high school.
· Yeah, but how do you wander around talking baseball?· He started talking about how valuable baseball cards were, and how easy it was to sell them.
· He will be permitted to meet members of Congress as well as visiting Wall Street and watching a baseball game.· The opening came when Robbie was watching the local baseball team on television.· This isn't like watching baseball or even a distant cousin.· In the summer he watched baseball on television; in the winter he went to the opera.· Who wouldn't trade a good drool-on-the-pillow nap for three hours of watching baseball?
· My niece is only little, but already she is susceptible to it, wearing T-shirts and baseball caps.· A graying guy wore a baseball shirt for a team called the Users.· He was wearing a baseball type cap, dark casual jacket and possibly jeans.· He wore a blue baseball cap backward and a gold hoop in his left ear.· He had a round face and was wearing a baseball cap.· One boy is slouched down in his chair, wearing a baseball cap, the bill turned backward.· One person decides to wear a baseball cap back to front, and then others do likewise without bothering to ask why.· He was also shot in the head by a gunman wearing a baseball cap.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
1[uncountable] an outdoor game between two teams of nine players, in which players try to get points by hitting a ball and running around four bases2[countable] the ball used in baseball- Finding that Stu Miller baseball card you wanted so badly.
- For example, my nephew Peter loves sports; he collects baseball cards, and creates imaginary teams in his mind.
- George hit upon the idea of buying a few baseball cards.
- His baseball card collection was near and dear to him.
- Instead, I was sitting on my couch examining baseball cards and looking them up in the encyclopedia.
- Readers of series books often collect books as eagerly as they collect baseball cards.
- When my kid was old enough to be interested, I gave him my old baseball cards to play with.