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/ˈbeɪsbɔːlə/, U.S. /ˈbeɪsˌbɔlər/, /ˈbeɪsˌbɑlər/ Chiefly North American (originally U.S.).
A baseball player.
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1867 Daily Cleveland (Ohio) Herald 2 Sept. Ye base ballers... Nowe prosper longe ye noble game, And base-ball players alle.
1896 R. G. Knowles & M. Morton Baseball 79 He..at once became a London baseballer.
1937 Life 6 Sept. 27/1 The pictures on this page show Baseballer Collins' accident and recuperation.
1969 Alcalde (Univ. Texas) June 32/2 The UT baseballers didn't wait quite as late to pull off their championship.
2006 S. Illingworth Filthy Rat x. 117 The number of baseball bats far outnumbered the baseballers residing in the area.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2011; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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