How to Use ballplayer in a Sentence

ballplayer

noun

• This is a very good ballplayer.
  — Tom Krasovic, San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 Sep. 2025
• There aren’t too many guys who are good ballplayers and nice guys, too.
  — John Lowe, Detroit Free Press, 6 Apr. 2020
• Buster Posey likes a ballplayer, likes a gamer.
  — Jackson Roberts, MSNBC Newsweek, 29 Oct. 2025
• No doubt the two young ballplayers would have gotten on well.
  — Henry Grabar, Slate Magazine, 25 July 2017
• The gap between how ballplayers and fans lived was not so wide.
  — Bob Greene, WSJ, 28 Mar. 2018
• And the project has done more than pay respect to old ballplayers.
  — Jeff Suess, Cincinnati Enquirer, 27 Apr. 2025
• To hear his dad tell it, the kid has the makings of a ballplayer.
  — Kirk Kenney, San Diego Union-Tribune, 9 May 2025
• And the project has done more than pay respect to old ballplayers.
  — Jeff Suess, Cincinnati Enquirer, 27 Apr. 2025
• The ballplayers are their kids, in two-month bursts every year.
  — Matt Viser, Town & Country, 22 June 2017
• The mental grind can cook some ballplayers.
  — Tom Krasovic, San Diego Union-Tribune, 12 Aug. 2025
• There is a part of both of them that will always feel like a ballplayer’s kid.
  — Los Angeles Times, 20 June 2021
• That’s what a lot of men and women gave their lives for these ballplayers to do.
  — Justice Delos Santos, Mercury News, 17 June 2026
• Witt is as complete a ballplayer as there is in the game today.
  — Tony Blengino, Forbes, 8 Oct. 2024
• The real ballplayers came back.
  — Cody Stavenhagen, New York Times, 17 Feb. 2026
• Those guys have got to come on and mature and become good ballplayers.
  — Colin Barnard, The Denver Post, 7 Aug. 2019
• Both as a ballplayer and in the most literal sense.
  — Gabrielle Starr, Boston Herald, 20 Jan. 2026
• Screaming bystanders and ballplayers fled to get out of the way.
  — Fox News, 4 June 2018
• My favorite ballplayers are the guys who refuse to leave peaceably.
  — Ian Crouch, The New Yorker, 11 July 2019
• Of a ballplayer who didn’t have the most talent but gave his all on every play.
  — Jeff Suess, The Enquirer, 3 July 2025
• The kid that just killed us last year was Skillings a good looking ballplayer.
  — Gary Bedore, Kansas City Star, 11 Jan. 2025
• Those ballplayers wouldn’t get away with this junk if Lou were here, nossir.
  — Paul Daugherty, Cincinnati.com, 4 Nov. 2017
• Really, though, any of the rest of the ballplayers would have done the same thing.
  — Eric Adler, kansascity, 7 Sep. 2017
• Willie Mays was the best all-around ballplayer, a showman for the sport and a good man.
  — Voice Of The People, New York Daily News, 21 June 2024
• Robinson is the perfect blend of ballplayer.
  — Assistant Sports Editor, Los Angeles Times, 15 Apr. 2026
• The shutdown, which could last about four years, means that park’s ballplayers will have to go elsewhere.
  — Andrea Salcedo, New York Times, 25 Aug. 2019
• After the game, the singers and the ballplayers reunited on the field.
  — Dom Amore, courant.com, 2 May 2017
• The tiny ballplayers in black uniforms, digging their dusty cleats into the dirt.
  — Maria Polletta, azcentral, 21 May 2016
• The ballplayers in this clubhouse — these kids — never saw Bo play.
  — Sam Mellinger, kansascity, 8 Mar. 2018
• Hank was a great ballplayer who played hard every day and accomplished so much on and off the field.
  — Nancy Clanton, ajc, 22 Jan. 2021
• There was a time no ballplayer was permitted to leave his team even to witness the birth of his child.
  — John Shea, SFChronicle.com, 11 July 2020