Definitions for baseball

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baseball base·ball

Spelling: [beys-bawl]

IPA: /ˈbeɪsˌbɔl/

Baseball is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 16 points.

You can make 168 anagrams from letters in baseball (aabbells).

Definitions for baseball

noun

1. a game of ball between two nine-player teams played usually for nine innings on a field that has as a focal point a diamond-shaped infield with a home plate and three other bases, 90 feet (27 meters) apart, forming a circuit that must be completed by a base runner in order to score, the central offensive action entailing hitting of a pitched ball with a wooden or metal bat and running of the bases, the winner being the team scoring the most runs.
2. the ball used in this game, being a sphere approximately 3 inches (7 cm) in diameter with a twine-covered center of cork covered by stitched horsehide.
3. Cards. a variety of five-card or seven-card stud poker in which nines and threes are wild and in which threes and fours dealt face up gain the player either penalties or privileges.

Origin of baseball

First recorded in 1795-1805; base¹ + ball¹

Examples for baseball

They show the true sport in their games of football and baseball.

Then Ned, from a baseball standpoint of safety, did what might be termed a foolish thing.

The kids had a gift for him too, a tee shirt with ‘baseball Spoken Here’ stenciled across the front.

Tim Russert and I are driving back to the Albany airport after taking our kids to the baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown.

It would have been impossible to throw a baseball from one end to the other.

Anyway, I advise you to resign as captain of the baseball club.

This would take time since, under current law, even scouting Cuban baseball players on the island is illegal.

He is trying to get your place as captain of the baseball club.

baseball has long been the most popular sport in Cuba and the island has long been a hotbed of baseball talent.

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