baseball player
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- noun
- /ˈbeɪsˌbɔl ˈpleɪər/
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jugador de béisbol
- The baseball player hit a home run to win the game for his team.
- major league baseball player
- professional baseball player
- American baseball player
You know who's your all time favorite baseball player?
- You know who's your all time favorite baseball player?
- You have the MLB baseball players for the Marlins.
- And mind you, I'm just a baseball player.
- It it makes me think about retired Hall of Famer Oakland A's baseball player Ricky Henderson.
- So instead of Carl Eiffler, he's pulled off the OSS assigns a baseball player named MO Berg to assassinate Werner Heisenberg.
- But growing up a young kid with a father that was a a superstar baseball player in Cincinnati, what was that upbringing like for you?
- In Korea, the top teachers earn more than the highest paid professional baseball players.
- He had plenty of old baseball players and that was easy.
Examples
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Jake is a professional baseball player.
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Well, Tony Gwynn is a Hall of Fame baseball player who during his years was probably the best hitter in baseball.
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- Did you want to be a baseball player?
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Are you a baseball player?
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And a professional baseball player.
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I was a baseball player.
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Who was the first Native American baseball player in the major leagues?
Academic text (2000) -
So Jackie Robinson, you know, was the first black baseball player in baseball.
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Historian 1: Joe DiMaggio was the most famous baseball player in America.
Fiction book (2002) -
Willie Mays, maybe the greatest baseball player ever, had a lot of trouble staying in his home in San Francisco.
Synonyms
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A person who plays baseball, often as a professional
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Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'a person who plays the sport of baseball' is directly and compositionally derived from the constituents 'baseball' (the sport) and 'player' (a person who plays). This noun-noun compound follows a common and cross-linguistically transparent pattern, so a B1 learner who knows both words will reliably understand the MWE.
Etymology
Baseball player comes from the simple picture of a person who plays the game of baseball. In that game people run between the 'bases' and hit the ball, so a baseball player is just someone who 'plays' that game, often for a team or as a job.