ball-player

Babe is an immensely strong hillbilly lass who is destined to be a pro ball-player, provided her Mammy can keep her in lightning juice.

Boing Boing 2009

Watson's improvement last season mirrored the team's: a fragile, inconsistent midfielder prone to spraying passes to opponents turned into a confident ball-player able to dominate and set the tempo.

Wigan Athletic Premier League 2011-12 team guide 2011

Barr is "tall and lean, hawk-faced and loose-footed, looking every inch the ideal, baggy-uniformed ball-player of the thirties."

Taking Fiction Out to the Ballgame Allen Barra 2011

April 26th, 2008 11: 52 pm ET she's a beer drinker, a gun toter, a quarterback, a ball-player ... what's next a monster-truck-driver? jason

Hillary Clinton takes a swing at sports metaphors 2008

At 33, Strawberry is a fading ball-player with a grand slam of serious ailments-alcohol abuse, drug abuse, alleged spousal abuse and tax evasion-behind him.

One More Time At Bat 2008

The auricles are prime movers of the blood, especially the right auricle, which, as already said, is “the first to live, the last to die”; whence they are subservient to sending the blood into the ventricles, which, contracting continuously, more readily and forcibly expel the blood already in motion; just as the ball-player can strike the ball more forcibly and further if he takes it on the rebound than if he simply threw it.

On the Motion of the Heart and Blood in Animals 2005

In 1852 circumstances combined to prevent the nomination of the convention's first or second choice, and in the end, as a ball-player at the bat earns first base through the errors of a pitcher, Franklin Pierce benefited.

A Political History of the State of New York, Volumes 1-3 DeAlva Stanwood Alexander

For a long time after its existence was familiar to every ball-player and spectator of the game, there were wise men who proclaimed its impossibility, who declared it to be simply an

Base-Ball How to Become a Player John M. Ward

It is hard to endure the thought of what the geniuses of the modern world might have been able to accomplish if only they had lived and trained like athletes and been treated with a small part of the practical consideration and live sympathy which humanity bestows on a favorite ball-player or prize-fighter.

The Joyful Heart Robert Haven Schauffler 1921

As a ball-player plays with his balls, he played with his business-deals, with the people around him, watched them, found amusement in them; with his heart, with the source of his being, he was not with them.

Siddhartha Hermann Hesse 1919