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/bˈeɪsbˈɔl/ Listen

noun

Baseball n.

A game of ball, so called from the bases or bounds (four in number) which designate the circuit which each player must endeavor to make after striking the ball.

The ball used in this game.

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Etymology of 'Baseball'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Baseball" Quotes from Famous Books

... went back into the hotel with something of the feeling of a baseball player who has made a mighty swing ...

— The End of the Rainbow • Marian Keith

... the cupboard was bare—. No! I mustn't say that. It doesn't belong here. I mean when Uncle Wiggily reached the drug store it was closed, and there was a sign in the door which said the monkey-doodle gentleman who kept the drug store had gone to a baseball-moving-picture show, and wouldn't be back for a ...

— Uncle Wiggily in the Woods • Howard R. Garis

... that Murphy used to punctuate his sentences was invariably accompanied with a gesture of his hand that resembled a baseball umpire's gesture in calling a runner safe at a base more than anything John ...

— Spring Street - A Story of Los Angeles • James H. Richardson

... no interest outside their hearts, such as baseball and hockey and earning saleries, are more likely to hug Romanse to their breasts, until it is ...

— Bab: A Sub-Deb • Mary Roberts Rinehart

... followed the bent of thought that he did. The fellows he knew either at school or in the town were ready enough to play football and baseball but almost none of them, for example, wanted to sacrifice a pleasant Saturday to constructing a wireless outfit. One or two of them, it is true, had begun the job but they soon tired of it and either sat down to watch him work or had deserted him altogether. ...

— Ted and the Telephone • Sara Ware Bassett

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