Athlete with a mitt

Usage examples of ballplayer.

If there were justice, ditchdiggers would be millionaires, and ballplayers would be half a paycheck above the poverty level.

I know a lot of ballplayers and they always tell me not to sign with anybody unless I get a good salary.

It was only baseball tradition that allowed scouting directors and scouts to go off and find the ballplayers on their own without worrying too much about the GM looking over their shoulders.

Some large number of amateur ballplayers were, for one reason or another, unworthy of serious consideration.

He had changed the lives of ballplayers whose hidden virtues otherwise might never have been seen.

But Fielding was precise in his stance, measured in his action, with a touch of the severity that all natural ballplayers have.

He was not a political activist, just a ballplayer with a good right arm.

In fact, it was the same foot fungus that a hundred and ten years later would afflict the famous ballplayer Clyde Livingston.

I am sure that anyone who remembers how he himself idolized the great ballplayers of his youth, will not even need the evidence in order to imagine just how Charles Curtis Flood might misuse and mislead these boys for his own subversive ends.

Euclid came through another door from the dining room and the parlor beyond, where Hellbender ballplayers, from kids like me to grizzled codgers like Creighton Nutter, were listening to the news and debating the capture of Attu in the Aleutians.

Down the first base line, twenty-five American players in Yankee pinstripes with red, white and blue hats fidgeted, adjusted jewelry, chewed pistachios, and scratched crotch the way ballplayers always did.

She had then married a pinch hitter for the Dodgers, a black ballplayer named Curly Peterson, and moved to Los Angeles.

I said, `What qualifies you, being a relative of Big Chief Tishomingo, or a onetime famous ballplayer no one's ever heard of?