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baseball|ˈbeɪsbɔːl|
Also base-ball.
[f. base n.1 15.]
a. The national field-game of the United States, a more elaborate variety of the English ‘rounders,’ played by two sides of nine each; so called from the ‘bases’ or bounds (usually four in number) which mark the circuit to be taken by each player of the in-side after striking the ball. Also, the ball used in the game.
c1815Jane Austen Northang. Abb. i. (1848) 3 It was not very wonderful that Catherine..should prefer cricket, base ball..to books. 1870Emerson Soc. & Solit. x. 209 Amiable boys, who had never encountered any rougher play than a base-ball match. 1883Harper's Mag. Dec. 106/2 An oval ball..a little larger than a base-ball.
b. attrib., as baseball club, baseball field, baseball game, baseball player.
1855(title) Atlantic Base Ball Club, Jamaica, N.Y. (D.A.E.). 1857in Chadwick Base Ball Manual (1874) 7 The National Association of Base Ball Players. 1860Chadwick (title) Beadle's Dime Base Ball Player comprising [etc.]. 1874― Base Ball Manual 9 A base ball field. 1886Baltimore Amer. in Boston Jrnl. 21 July 2/3 (D.A.E.), Any respectable base ball game can attract from 2000 to 7000. 1911H. Harrison Queed xviii. 225 On the following Saturday,..he took Miss Weyland to another base-ball game.
Hence ˈbaseballer, -ballist.
1868(title) New England Base Ballist. A weekly journal. 1886Congress. Rec. 2 Apr. 3043/2 [He is well known] as a baseballist among constitutional lawyers, and a constitutional lawyer among baseballists. 1888Battle Creek Jrnl. 12 Dec., Western Base Ballers. 1896Knowles & Morton Baseball 79 He..at once became a London baseballer. |