Little Leaguern.
/ˈlɪtl ˌliːɡə/, /ˌlɪtl ˈliːɡə/, U.S. /ˈlɪdə(l) ˈˌliɡər/ Sport (originally and chiefly U.S.).
A player in a little league or the Little League.
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1910 Outing Mag. Dec. 301/1 Gloves..cost about $7 and a player will wear out two a season, or $7,840 for the big leagues. If two thirds of the little leaguers wear gloves that adds over $50,000.
1939 Oakland (Calif.) Tribune 20 Feb. b11/5 And now a salute to the biggest little leaguers on any diamond.
1949 Sat. Evening Post (Philadelphia) 14 May 137/1 The Little Leaguers sometimes outdraw the professional Williamsport Tigers.
1963 M. Wills & S. Gardner It pays to Steal vi. 52 Pete started me from scratch—almost like a manager would do with a nine-year-old Little Leaguer.
1994 D. Halberstam Oct. 1964 (1995) vii. 89 Jerry Coleman thought it made the rest of the hits in the game look like those of Little Leaguers.
2013 T. Greenwald Jack Strong takes Stand i. xii. 58 A lot of little leaguers can't catch a high pop.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2014; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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