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baseman

n. (context baseball softball English) A player positioned at or near a base: first baseman, second baseman or third baseman.

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Baseman

In baseball, the term baseman can refer to the following positions:

  • First baseman
  • Second baseman
  • Third baseman

Usage examples of "baseman".

When in the seventh round Erik leans in and takes the last of these, an ambidextrous first baseman from the University of Pittsburgh named Brant Colamarino, Paul wears an expression of pure bliss.

When the catcher threw the ball, the coacher started down the base-line toward home, and the sec-mid baseman, seeing only imperfectly, mistook him for the runner and returned the ball quickly to the catcher.

At the moment of impact, Joe stopped on a dune, turned, began to charge Shorty, pulled up short, ripped off an obscene finger as he screamed a string of obscenities in Spanish, and then he almost slugged his cousin Floyd when the first baseman picked up the ball and tagged Joe out.

In the top of the ninth Caleb Jones got on base with a walk and was moved over to second two batters later when Ted Carter reached on an error by the third baseman.

To fill the hole at the back of his bullpen Billy had traded to the Toronto Blue jays a minor league third baseman, Eric Hinske, for Billy Koch, another crude fireballer.

If he hits a smash down the third base line and the third baseman makes a diving stop and throws the runner out, then we notice and applaud the third baseman.

The White Sox declined, but that conversation led to another, in which Billy discovered that the White Sox were willing to part with their All-Star second baseman and leadoff hitter, Ray Durham.

Durham had what every general manager in the game had always prized: pop in the leadoff slot, speed on the base paths, and a reputation, less deserved now than five years ago, as a good second baseman.

Snakes replaced one unconscious outfielder and one second baseman with a bad case of the shakes.

He was a fairly good outfielder, but excelled either as a catcher or baseman.

Now that he knew, he could see the Italian second baseman in her, in her chin, in her nose, in her hair.

This allows the second baseman to guard the territory between second and first, which he would not otherwise be able to do, and if the ball is hit to him, he throws to the short-stop at second, forcing out the runner from first.

He runs at full speed until near the base and then throws his body away from the baseman and his feet at the base.

Buck Hoey, the wiseguy shortstop who’d bellyached about the first baseman who hadn’t come to practice, hopped down last, near a blue frame house with more shrubs and a prettier paint job than any house around it.

After Anaheim's second baseman, Adam Kennedy, blooped a single off Bradford, he turned to Hatty and said, "Jesus Christ, there's no way that's eighty-four miles an hour.