baseball league
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- noun
- /ˈbeɪsˌbɔl liɡ/
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liga de béisbol
- Each team in the baseball league plays once a week throughout the spring and summer seasons.
- fantasy baseball league
- professional baseball league
- youth baseball league
If you remember the NLB super intended, isn't NLB also that basketball or Baseball League?
- If you remember the NLB super intended, isn't NLB also that basketball or Baseball League?
Examples
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He's starting a girls' baseball league so we can make a buck while the boys are overseas.
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Well, I played in an all-boys baseball league with my brother, and eventually quit when I became afraid of the ball.
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Georgia: I want to tell him about the new baseball league.
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The organization was created out of the partnership of two baseball leagues.
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There can be a baseball league where everyone is rigorously tested, perhaps after every game even.
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The next scene is Kit talking Dottie into joining the baseball league.
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The film about the first women's baseball league is a quality sports movie with great characters, great performances, and a feel-good story.
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While you're here, you'll find tons of valuable fantasy baseball information to help you win your fantasy baseball league.
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"We are looking forward to taking this next step and working toward becoming one of the elite summer baseball leagues in the country," said league President Brett Mauser.
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The players come from high schools across the island to play for the Long Island Titans, an independent baseball league that works with varsity ball players year-round to help develop their game and put them in a better drafting position when college scouts begin to recruit.
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Synonyms
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A group of teams that play each other in a competition
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Morphology
The meaning 'an organized association of baseball teams...' is directly and transparently derived from combining 'baseball' (the sport) with 'league' (a sports organization). This noun–noun compositional pattern is common and cross-linguistically regular, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents will readily infer the MWE's meaning.
Etymology
The name baseball league comes from putting baseball, the game, and league, a group of teams that play each other, together. Imagine teams linked like a chain and playing regular 'scheduled games', so the phrase means 'an organized group of teams that compete'.