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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All the while, pitchers lauded his communication and game-calling abilities and his defensive skills, the latter an area that Baldwin worked diligently to improve in his past two major league spring trainings.
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David O'Brien, New York Times, 11 Nov. 2025
Greenberg wouldn't return to baseball until 1945, serving 47 months (the longest service of any major league player) as an officer in locations all around the world.
—Christian Romo, Freep.com, 11 Nov. 2025
One of those departures was a three-year major league catcher who never quite got his chance to make an impact for the Blue Jays, and now might never.
—Jackson Roberts, MSNBC Newsweek, 10 Nov. 2025
As of Friday afternoon, the only holdovers from last year’s staff appear to be assistant hitting coach Oscar Bernard, first-base coach Mark Hallberg, catching coach Alex Burg and major league quality control coach Taira Uematsu.
—Justice Delos Santos, Mercury News, 7 Nov. 2025
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David O'Brien, New York Times, 11 Nov. 2025
Greenberg wouldn't return to baseball until 1945, serving 47 months (the longest service of any major league player) as an officer in locations all around the world.
—Christian Romo, Freep.com, 11 Nov. 2025
One of those departures was a three-year major league catcher who never quite got his chance to make an impact for the Blue Jays, and now might never.
—Jackson Roberts, MSNBC Newsweek, 10 Nov. 2025
As of Friday afternoon, the only holdovers from last year’s staff appear to be assistant hitting coach Oscar Bernard, first-base coach Mark Hallberg, catching coach Alex Burg and major league quality control coach Taira Uematsu.
—Justice Delos Santos, Mercury News, 7 Nov. 2025
See All Example Sentences for major league
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“Major league.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/major%20league. Accessed 12 Nov. 2025.
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