baseball-player

See also: baseball player

English

Noun

baseball-player (plural baseball-players)

  1. Alternative form of baseball player.
    • 1866 July 19, Utica Fossil Baseball Club, quotee, “An Extraordinary Game at Syracuse”, in The Daily Pantagraph, volume X, number 149 (2884 overall), Bloomington, Ill.: Steele, Briggs & Co., published 1 September 1866, →OCLC, page [2], column 2:
      The band to take the place of the baseball-players as they become fatigued and fall out.
    • 1867 November 11, Daily Evening News, volume IX, number 137, Fall River, Mass.: Almy, Milne & Co., →OCLC, page [4], column 1:
      The sawing began at 10.25; all hands rested thirty minutes, and lunched at 12 o’clock. The Independents completed their last stick in three hours and ten minutes.—The Fenians got through next. Then the baseball-players, […]
    • 1985 January 30, Darrell Simmons, “Sportsbeat”, in The Atlanta Constitution, Atlanta, Ga., →OCLC, page 2-B, column 5:
      Bob Gibson was the major-league baseball-player who once played for the Globetrotters.
    • 1995 March 18, “Pink Sportsword”, in Manchester Evening News, number 39,101, Manchester, →ISSN, →OCLC, “The Pink” section, page 19, column 1:
      A baseball-player who operates on a higher level than the rest
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