ballplayer
noun
ball·play·er
ˈbȯl-ˌplā-ər 
: a person who plays ball
especially
: a baseball player
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As a ballplayer, Kent was as irascible as Bonds; the two alphas reportedly brawled behind clubhouse doors, and famously clashed in the dugout during a 2002 game, when Bonds lunged for Kent’s throat and pushed him against the wall.
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Jeremy Collins, The Atlantic, 12 Dec. 2025
At Meta, Mark Zuckerberg placed a chatbot into flagship products like Instagram and WhatsApp, raided rivals to amass talent, and doled out compensation packages that paid machine-learning engineers more than professional ballplayers.
—Charlie Campbell, Time, 11 Dec. 2025
This was no downtown scene, this was Broadway and all the show people and ballplayers and serious mob guys were right there, and Franky C knew them all, from Jackie Wilson to Clay Cole to Tiny Tim.
—Literary Hub, 6 Nov. 2025
Buster Posey likes a ballplayer, likes a gamer.
—Jackson Roberts, MSNBC Newsweek, 29 Oct. 2025
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Jeremy Collins, The Atlantic, 12 Dec. 2025
At Meta, Mark Zuckerberg placed a chatbot into flagship products like Instagram and WhatsApp, raided rivals to amass talent, and doled out compensation packages that paid machine-learning engineers more than professional ballplayers.
—Charlie Campbell, Time, 11 Dec. 2025
This was no downtown scene, this was Broadway and all the show people and ballplayers and serious mob guys were right there, and Franky C knew them all, from Jackie Wilson to Clay Cole to Tiny Tim.
—Literary Hub, 6 Nov. 2025
Buster Posey likes a ballplayer, likes a gamer.
—Jackson Roberts, MSNBC Newsweek, 29 Oct. 2025
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“Ballplayer.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/ballplayer. Accessed 17 Dec. 2025.
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