major league

noun

|Updated on: 31 Jul 2018

Examples: major league in a Sentence

Definition of major league

1 : a league of highest classification in U.S. professional baseball; broadly : a league of major importance in any of various sports

2 : big time 2

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major-league

adjective

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major leaguer

noun

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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

Recent Examples of major league from the Web

Miami is now tied for the major league lead with nine extra-inning games, including a 17-inning win over the Cubs in March, and a pair of 16-inning losses to the Giants and the Rays in the last month.

— matthew defranks, Sun-Sentinel.com, "A Closer Look: Miami Marlins 5, Milwaukee Brewers 4 (12 innings)," 12 July 2018
Aguilar leads all major league first basemen with 22 home runs and 63 RBI, and his 1.001 OPS is tops in the NL overall.

— jorge l. ortiz, USA TODAY, "MLB All-Star Game: Eight biggest roster snubs," 8 July 2018
Randy Harvey, a renowned umpire who has called games for more than 3 decades in college and the major leagues, had both his legs amputated after a mysterious illness that doctors still haven’t determined the source.

— stephen ruiz, OrlandoSentinel.com, "Umpires rally around Sanford peer after infection costs him his legs," 6 July 2018
But before De Los Santos arrives at Nationals Park, the pitching prospect could first get a taste of the major leagues.

— matt breen, Philly.com, "Phillies prospect Enyel De Los Santos could take the mound in the majors sooner than expected," 6 July 2018
The summer league consists of nine teams, many which have similar nicknames to major league baseball teams, such as Cubs, Giants, Marlins, Padres, Pirates , Royals , Tigers , among others.

— marvin glassman, Jewish Journal, "Men relive their youth through JCC summer softball league," 3 July 2018
Yet just as in the major leagues, home runs at the college level are up.

— matthew gutierrez, WSJ, "Baseball’s Home Run Obsession Hits the College Ranks," 25 June 2018
Fogel has baseball's signs of changing times, like when players endorsed cigarettes or after Jackie Robinson broke the color barrier in the all-white major leagues.

— CBS News, ""Baseball is magic": Meet the Colorado man with a big collection of baseball history," 16 June 2018
Turang's father, Brian, played parts of two seasons in the major leagues spending time in 1993 and 1994 with the Seattle Mariners.

— andrew lopez, NOLA.com, "MLB Draft 2018: LSU signee Brice Turang picked No. 21 overall by the Milwaukee Brewers," 4 June 2018

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