often attributive
: a game played with a bat and ball between two teams of nine players each on a large field having four bases that mark the course a runner must take to score
also
: the ball used in this game
Examples of baseball in a Sentence
We watched baseball on TV last night.
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Local baseball historians, take note: besides Lane Field, there’s a chapter on San Diego Stadium, aka Jack Murphy Stadium, aka Qualcomm Stadium.
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Peter Rowe, San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 May 2024
Aberdeen and Harford Tech’s baseball teams gathered on the pavement splitting the Eagles football and baseball fields for a pregame ceremony.
—Sam Cohn, Baltimore Sun, 24 May 2024
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Peter Rowe, San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 May 2024
Aberdeen and Harford Tech’s baseball teams gathered on the pavement splitting the Eagles football and baseball fields for a pregame ceremony.
—Sam Cohn, Baltimore Sun, 24 May 2024
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“Baseball.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/baseball. Accessed 28 May. 2024.
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baseball
noun
base·ball
ˈbās-ˌbȯl 
: a game played with a bat and ball by two teams of nine players each on a field with four bases that mark the course a runner must take to score
also
: the ball used in this game
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