Definition of Baseball play

1. Noun. (baseball) a play executed by a baseball team.

Category relationships: Baseball, Baseball Game
Generic synonyms: Maneuver, Manoeuvre, Play
Specialized synonyms: Double Play, Triple Play, Pick-off, Squeeze Play

Lexicographical Neighbors of Baseball Play

baseball cards
baseball clinic
baseball club
baseball coach
baseball coil
baseball diamond
baseball elbow
baseball equipment
baseball field
baseball finger
baseball game
baseball glove
baseball league
baseball manager
baseball mitt
baseball play (current term)
baseball player
baseball score
baseball season
baseball swing
baseball team
baseballer
baseballers
baseband
basebands
baseboard
baseboarding
baseboards
baseborn

Literary usage of Baseball play

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Longman's Magazine by Charles James Longman (1887)
"Thus the English cricketers had an opportunity of watching very fine baseball play at Philadelphia. Presently the Englishmen began to form a somewhat poor ..."

2. Outing (1892)
"In fact, professionals have never invented any especial feature of baseball play. They kept the plan of Harry's being sent into the box on the "dead quiet," ..."

3. Selected Articles on Child Labor by Edna Dean Bullock (1915)
"He will play baseball, play football, and he will use his muscles most energetically. He will take great delight in using his muscles in a gymnasium if he ..."

4. Constructive and Preventive Philanthropy by Joseph Lee, Jacob August Riis (1902)
"What playgrounds we have, large enough for baseball Play- and similar sports, apart from the surviving groun<ls seventeenth-century commons, have chiefly ..."

5. Montreal by Ulysses Travel Guides Staff (2004)
"... the Expos de Montreal (Major League Baseball) play at the Olympic Stadium against various baseball teams. Car Racing Circuit Gilles-Villeneuve ..."

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