Definition of Left fielder

1. Noun. The person who plays left field.

Generic synonyms: Outfielder
Derivative terms: Left Field, Left Field

Definition of Left fielder

1. Noun. (baseball) The outfield defensive player that stands to the left of the center fielder as viewed from home plate. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Left Fielder

left branch
left colic artery
left colic flexure
left colic lymph nodes
left colic vein
left coronary artery
left coronary artery branches
left coronary vein
left coset
left cosets
left crus of atrioventricular bundle
left crus of diaphragm
left duct of caudate lobe
left fibrous trigone
left field
left fielder (current term)
left fielders
left for dead
left gastric artery
left gastric lymph nodes
left gastric vein
left gastro-omental artery
left gastro-omental nodes
left gastroepiploic artery
left gastroepiploic lymph nodes
left gastroepiploic vein
left gastroomental vein
left hand
left hander
left heart

Literary usage of Left fielder

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

1. Handbook of Athletic Games for Players, Instructors, and Spectators by Jessie Hubbell Bancroft, William Dean Pulvermacher (1916)
"There are three fielders, a right fielder, a left fielder and a center fielder, whose places are in the outfield, ie, beyond the diamond. ..."

2. Walter Camp's Book of College Sports by Walter Camp (1900)
"When a left-handed man is at the bat, unless he have some well-known peculiarity of batting into left field, the left-fielder will do well to come in a ..."

3. The Encyclopaedia of Sport by Frederick George Aflalo, Hedley Peek (1897)
"left fielder—The player occupying this position will find that the ... A very great number of batsmen are dismissed by being caught by the left fielder. ..."

4. The Book of School and College Sports by Ralph Henry Barbour (1904)
"Left-fielder backs up center, and so does right fielder; center backs up ... right-fielder and left- fielder. The outfield positions are popularly supposed ..."

5. Athletics at Princeton: A History by Frank Presbrey, James Hugh Moffatt (1901)
"W. Moffat made a two base hit and Harían hit a ball past left fielder, ... Moffat attempted to reach home but the left fielder threw the ball home in time ..."

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