major league
noun
1
: a league of highest classification in U.S. professional baseball
broadly
: a league of major importance in any of various sports
2
major leaguer
noun
Examples of major league in a Sentence
when you've landed a tenure-track position at that university, you're playing in the major leagues
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Major League Baseball announced this week that its emergency medical procedures now require that naloxone be stored in clubhouses, weight rooms, dugouts and umpire dressing rooms at all major league and minor league ballparks.
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Houston Mitchell, Los Angeles Times, 7 June 2024
In his more than two decades of writing about the world of sports, he’s chronicled everything from high school rodeo to a major league baseball no-hitter to the Super Bowl to the Finals.
—Roderick Boone, Charlotte Observer, 6 June 2024
Perhaps Shohei Ohtani will surpass Oh before NPB is officially ruled a major league, making that irrelevant, dude.
—Paul Sullivan, Chicago Tribune, 2 June 2024
About 40 percent of major league baseball players last season were players of color, according to a report by the Institute for Diversity and Ethics in Sport, but only about 6 percent identified as either Black or African American, the lowest since tracking started in 1991.
—Jonathan Abrams, New York Times, 1 June 2024
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Houston Mitchell, Los Angeles Times, 7 June 2024
In his more than two decades of writing about the world of sports, he’s chronicled everything from high school rodeo to a major league baseball no-hitter to the Super Bowl to the Finals.
—Roderick Boone, Charlotte Observer, 6 June 2024
Perhaps Shohei Ohtani will surpass Oh before NPB is officially ruled a major league, making that irrelevant, dude.
—Paul Sullivan, Chicago Tribune, 2 June 2024
About 40 percent of major league baseball players last season were players of color, according to a report by the Institute for Diversity and Ethics in Sport, but only about 6 percent identified as either Black or African American, the lowest since tracking started in 1991.
—Jonathan Abrams, New York Times, 1 June 2024
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“Major league.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/major%20league. Accessed 11 Jun. 2024.
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