How to Use ballplayer in a Sentence

ballplayer

noun
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  • In this way, the effect of the Wild Card on viewers and ballplayers is the same.
    — Robert O'Connell, The Atlantic, 5 Oct. 2017
  • Face it, Bill, Tatis is a great young ballplayer and the Dodgers lost to a very good team.
    — Los Angeles Times, 1 May 2021
  • After the game, the singers and the ballplayers reunited on the field.
    — Dom Amore, courant.com, 2 May 2017
  • Willie Mays was the best all-around ballplayer, a showman for the sport and a good man.
    — Voice Of The People, New York Daily News, 21 June 2024
  • Really, though, any of the rest of the ballplayers would have done the same thing.
    — Eric Adler, kansascity, 7 Sep. 2017
  • Not Garth Brooks the country star but Garth Brooks the ballplayer.
    — John Shea, San Francisco Chronicle, 28 Apr. 2018
  • The next day, Ohtani said, Mizuhara told the agent the ballplayer had paid the interpreter’s debt.
    — Paul Pringle, Los Angeles Times, 27 Mar. 2024
  • The gap between how ballplayers and fans lived was not so wide.
    — Bob Greene, WSJ, 28 Mar. 2018
  • There aren’t too many guys who are good ballplayers and nice guys, too.
    — John Lowe, Detroit Free Press, 6 Apr. 2020
  • There is a part of both of them that will always feel like a ballplayer’s kid.
    — Los Angeles Times, 20 June 2021
  • The ballplayers are their kids, in two-month bursts every year.
    — Matt Viser, Town & Country, 22 June 2017
  • The ballplayers are their kids, in two-month bursts every year.
    — Matt Viser, Town & Country, 22 June 2017
  • Just a great teammate, great friend and he’s a ballplayer, man.
    — Bobby Nightengale, The Enquirer, 9 Sep. 2021
  • Screaming bystanders and ballplayers fled to get out of the way.
    — Fox News, 4 June 2018
  • The former all-star is the son of former ballplayer Gary Matthews.
    — Neal J. Leitereg, latimes.com, 19 Oct. 2017
  • There are a lot of good ballplayers out here, in all levels.
    — Rich Mayor, Naperville Sun, 27 July 2017
  • No doubt the two young ballplayers would have gotten on well.
    — Henry Grabar, Slate Magazine, 25 July 2017
  • The house remained on the market for the same price — but unavailable for the star ballplayer.
    — George Skelton, Los Angeles Times, 22 June 2024
  • My favorite ballplayers are the guys who refuse to leave peaceably.
    — Ian Crouch, The New Yorker, 11 July 2019
  • Those guys have got to come on and mature and become good ballplayers.
    — Colin Barnard, The Denver Post, 7 Aug. 2019
  • Think about how many times a ballplayer touches their face.
    — Fox News, 2 June 2020
  • The shutdown, which could last about four years, means that park’s ballplayers will have to go elsewhere.
    — Andrea Salcedo, New York Times, 25 Aug. 2019
  • The ballplayers in this clubhouse — these kids — never saw Bo play.
    — Sam Mellinger, kansascity, 8 Mar. 2018
  • Those ballplayers wouldn’t get away with this junk if Lou were here, nossir.
    — Paul Daugherty, Cincinnati.com, 4 Nov. 2017
  • Tapia is a non-contender’s ballplayer, and the Jays have handed him hundreds of at bats.
    — Tony Blengino, Forbes, 11 Aug. 2022
  • There was a time no ballplayer was permitted to leave his team even to witness the birth of his child.
    — John Shea, SFChronicle.com, 11 July 2020
  • Of course, the actual baseballs, bats, and ballplayers are part of the fireworks as well.
    — Tom Krasovic, sandiegouniontribune.com, 8 June 2018
  • There was still a certain code of the road between ballplayers and the heathens that covered them.
    — Paul Daugherty, Cincinnati.com, 14 July 2019
  • For a long time, predicting the success of a ballplayer was largely a matter of intuition and guesswork.
    — Dhruv Khullar, The New Yorker, 2 Sep. 2024
  • Just ask the Augustine brothers, a pair of ballplayers from Fort Collins who came out to multiple games this week for Blackmon’s last hurrah.
    — Kyle Newman, The Denver Post, 27 Sep. 2024

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